Lamas, dramas and Chinese whispers

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 19, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

The high Tibetan plateau is an empty place of stone, ice and fleeting clouds. Chinese officialdom seldom bothers with the nomad tribespeople who move their yaks across this vast wasteland searching for pasture. But sometime last month, in the remote Nagchu prefecture, high-ranking communist cadres swooped down on a nomad encampment and detained a six- year-old Tibetan boy, Gendun Choekyi Nyima, and his parents.

The strange odyssey of this little boy is only now beginning. Gendun and his poor, barely literate parents were reportedly placed on an aeroplane under the kind of tight security ...

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