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First-person account of terror in Tibet at hands of China last week, urges media to ask questions, pay attention


I’m working to get permission from family friends who circulated to some media and family the account their daughter has given of her time last week in Tibet.  What was supposed to be an exploration by a well-traveled, multi-lingual, philanthropically and good-natured soul turned into something that goes beyond keeping parents up at night, but, as the author writes, caused her to feel like the hunted as she kept moving forward and eventually out of Tibet through Vietnam.

I located this German language article that includes the first-person account.  I used Google translator and got this English version which is a bit better but still not great compared to this translated version from Babelfish but clearly the translation is far less than perfect.  The letter I received through my mother from the writer’s father is in English, written by her to family and friends.
If anyone knows German or can recommend a better translating program for the German news article, let me know and I’ll feed it through there.

In the meantime, please read Jeff Hess’s blog, Have Coffee Will Write because he does pretty much the best job around at keeping up with atrocities in places such as Darfur and Myanmar.

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By Jill Miller Zimon at 8:54 am March 31st, 2008 in 'Roots News, Blogging, Civil Rights, Foreign Affairs, Law, Media, Politics, Social Issues, Women, Writing 

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