[Wikipedia-l] wikipedia in China

Fri Sep 24 23:02:32 UTC 2004

Indeed they are. In the November 13, 1950 issue of Life magazine, pages
130-136, 138, 141, in the article "This Was the Perilous Trek to Tragedy" by
Frank Bessac, the story is told of a criminal sentence handed down in Tibet
in 1950 which called for amputation of the perpetrator's "noses and ears"
which was reduced to a public flogging of 200 lashes which sentence was
carried out in Lhasa. The cover of Life pictures the flogging.

Fred

> Meanwhile, the atrocities in Tibet are well documented.