Publicized in TV documentaries, editorials in the state-run media and museum exhibitions, what Beijing calls "Serfs Liberation Day" likens the end of the Dalai Lama's rule in Tibet 50 years ago to Abraham Lincoln's emancipation of the slaves. At a ceremony in front of Tibet's famed Potala Palace in front of a crowd of more than 13,000 and broadcast live on national television, the national flag was raised and speeches extolled the changes brought by the Communist Party to the region and denounced the...
photo: WN / Yeshe Choesang
