Aussie Ambassador to China Concludes Pointless Tibet Visit

Frances Adamson, the Australian Ambassador to China has concluded a four day visit of Tibet.

Adamson had wanted to visit the region to investigate why so many Tibetans where self-immolating in Tibet and Qinghai.

Bob Carr, the Australian Foreign Minister had asked Ms. Adamson to speak to locals and "look into" why there had been 98 incidences of monks and ordinary Tibets setting themselves on fire.  A month after her application had been submitted, she was subsequently denied a Tibetan permit by Chinese authorities.

Reports on the visit, however, don't seem to suggest that Ambassador Adamson raised any human rights issues on the trip that she had waited so long for permission to take.

The Australian Embassy posted a few pictures on it's website of Ms. Adamson meeting officials and local people, but suggests that nothing was looked into as far as self-immolation was concerned.

 

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