EXCLUSIVE: Media Tour to Tibetan Region Disrupted, Again

Later, when we asked a senior monk at a news conference about the protest, he said the younger monks were only a small minority of the more than 1,000 in Labrang monastery.

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He said these protesting monks did not represent the majority of monks. He added that these young monks did not understand the history of China and Tibet and were misled by "separatists."

With the Tibetan shawl still in my hand, I boarded the bus to continue our guided tour, wondering what fate lay ahead for these young monks who defied the authorities to express their grievances to our visiting group.