If you’ve been following the recent news, you know that Tibet is having a terrible time right now. (If you don’t, the BBC has a good rundown.)

I’ve been trying to find the words to express how angry and sad and frustrated I have been since this violence started.  It is a very strange feeling to look at pictures coming out of Lhasa and recognize in the burnt-out shells places I and my classmates passed every day for three weeks. Yahoo has an extensive photo gallery of Lhasa and Tibetan protests. In the rubble, so far I’ve recognized a teashop in which I got a wonderful cup of tea, a little Chinese dumpling shop that would belch out the noxious fumes of cooking cabbage and unidentifiable meat, and various shops near the Barkhor. Of course, we can’t contact any of the people we met in Tibet, so we don’t know if they are safe or not.

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This from the Telegraph, via World Tibet Network News:

The Prince of Wales has snubbed the Chinese government by refusing to attend the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.

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China gets its way once again: Team Tibet will not be allowed to participate in the Olympics, since Tibet is not recognized as a sovereign state. The team is apparently still in good spirits, and hopes to try again in 2012. Perhaps they’ll have better luck when the games aren’t hosted by their oppressors.

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