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Wolf

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The trio flew from Karachi, India to Katmandu, Nepal and then on a Chinese airline to Lhasa, the capital of Tibet.

Wolf said, “It’s not only off the beaten path, in Tibet there is no path.” The military is all over Tibet, cameras monitor the streets from rooftops. It is a police state, he added.

They stayed several days in Lhasa and one day went 50 to 60 kilometers into the countryside to visit monasteries and the remains of some. With the help of his translator Wolf was able to converse with local Tibetans, who risked their safety to speak to him.

Every single Tibetan he spoke with expressed support for the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader who fled to India on horseback in the 1959. A Tibetan is thrown in jail for even possessing a picture of the Dalai Lama, but still they took out pictures and showed them to Wolf. The Chinese government is brutal, punishing with beatings and

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