Tibet

The repression and the killing continues whilst the West makes representations to the Chinese government. You should read Alice Thomson's article in yesterday's Telegraph for some background on this story. Here's an extract, being the story of Tsering Wangmo:

"She explained how she had been dragged through the streets by her hair, beaten with electric prongs and thrown into a water-logged, open-air prison with more than 1,000 other women after she refused to spit on the photograph (of the Dalai Lama). She was repeatedly raped and hung upside down by her Chinese guards; she was expected to sleep on the bodies of dead inmates, and when she was finally released, she discovered that her husband had been forced to marry a Chinese woman and her children had disappeared."

These are the actions of our friends the Chinese. I am sure that Gordon will press the point in his telephone meetings with the Chinese leadership, sorry that would require courage not craven cowardice.