European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Magazine by Rick Gladstone associated press i. I 11 i Chr of til. I Irmi 1.1 us under the Chin. To i 1.1 up the ,-.i to. . I ,,. It fat -1 icons n i r m Lite Cha Man mat Turi l -. .-l.-, an a ,.,iks of i . Van ,". No Antral Asia whirl i in i hut inhabited by less than ? Mill on pop a the ruins Are reminders of peking s attempts to crush tibetan culture and Bury n Feudal theocracy that ruled the mystical land for centuries resisting chinese domination and later appealing vainly for outside help by some estimates hundreds of thousand of tibetan did in the struggle the exiled Dalai i Ama. M a recent article for the now York 7"/mp pred Narjan. Wrote that at least 1.2 million have to d As a direct result of the chinese occupation " the Dalai 1 Ama lied Lhasa on March 17. 1959. As chinese troops . I Korbul Tungka jewel Park his summer Palace and later reduced it to rubble but from his exile Home in dhar Amsalu. India the 49-year-old spiritual Leader of Tibet remains a powerful Force among his compatriots. Nearly 100.000 fled with him abroad. Almost All of Tibet s great wealth especially the priceless religious statues images paintings and icons that adorned our thousands of monasteries and temples has been plundered and taken to the god King wrote in the dispatch from Dan Rusala among our greatest losses Are the irreplaceable ancient sanskrit. Pali and tibetan texts destroyed by the Bui after 35 years of what the chinese now Call a mistaken approach they say they Are funnelling $1.4 billion into restoring temples and building roads schools and tourist hotels in the poorest Region under their control. The policy in Tibet has become More says Tibet s communist party Secretary we Jinghua it cannot go backward. Tibet is a mysterious place and we want to open it up. We Welcome All our friends in the world to come and have a the communists Only in recent years have let a trickle of foreigners tour the roof of the world a land of dizzying Elevation and oxygen thin air. At 12.210 feet. Lhasa is among the world s highest cities a mix of decayed chinese Concrete and centuries old buildings of Stone and dried Earth ringed by craggy treeless Snow capped peaks and verdant Fields of Barley. Western journalists who visited three years ago were shocked by evidence of religious oppression. Bitter poverty and tibetan hostility toward the chinese. Buddhist rituals the Core of tibetan life were restricted and police kept visitors inside Lhasa the government suspended press hours thereafter but recently allowed groups of reporters to travel Overland nearly 800 Miles from Lhasa through grasslands and glacial passes to the towns of Gantse and the Nepal Border. Private herds of Black shaggy yaks and nimble continued on Page my a woman prays during a visit to the Buddhist Lam Asery Al Gantse in Central Tibet. Religious revive in sunday. September 22. 1985 the stars and stripes Page 13
