China Will Reopen Tibet to Tourists

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Source: New York Times

BEIJING — The Chinese government will reopen Tibet to foreign tourists on April 5 after a nearly six-week ban, according to the state-run news agency Xinhua.

Foreign tourists were barred from visiting Tibet in late February before the 50th anniversary of a failed rebellion against Chinese rule. Security was stepped up in the Tibet Autonomous Region and border areas. The anniversary passed on Saturday without serious unrest.

Bachug, the head of Tibet’s tourism department, told Xinhua on Sunday that the region is “harmonious and safe now” for tourists. Mr. Bachug, who like many Tibetans uses only one name, said more than 100 foreign tour groups have registered to visit Tibet.

An uprising in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa last March led to the deaths of at least 19 people, most of them Han Chinese civilians. Hundreds of protesters were detained. Exile groups claim that 220 monks, nuns and other Tibetans died and more than 1,000 were injured in the ensuing crackdown.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/world/asia/31tibet.html?ref=world

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1. Don't they mean "Tibet?"

50 years of re-education and slavery = "Tibet"