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Neither ABC nor NBC was invited by the Chinese government on its journalists' junket to Tibet. From Bangkok, NBC's Ian Williams called it "a carefully stage managed tour for selected foreign journalists." From Beijing, ABC's Stephanie Sy (embargoed link) concurred, seeing a "carefully choreographed tour for only a handful of journalists." Yet when the tour walked into Lhasa's Jokhang Temple, their minders were ambushed by a group of 30 monks who rushed over to the reporters to complain that they were being locked up by authorities and that the monks the journalists were being led to meet were impostors, Communist Party officials in disguise. Sy got her eyewitness quotes from Geoff Dyer of The Financial Times and Williams used Charles Hutzler of Associated Press. Both described handlers physically interrupt their questioning of the monks by pulling them away bodily.
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