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The Dalai Lama is like a member of the family that can’t come home.

Found a very interesting article from a Reuters photographer and his colleague trying (successfully) to sneak into Tibet to get unfiltered, first-hand information on the situation back there, despite the Chinese authorities trying their best to prevent just that.

Tibet

I can’t really find the words to describe my emotions about this. I feel worried about Tibet, which won’t really have a snowball’s chance in hell in such a conflict with China. A certain understanding that 50 years of (more or less foreful) oppression culminate so explosively. Deep sorrow about the death toll. And utter [...]