Tweets from the plateau

摘要

In a recent posting on her blog, Tsering Woeser accused the authorities in Lhasa of carrying out racial segregation, welcoming Han Chinese visitors to the Tibetan capital but not Tibetans. "Has the world forgotten its boycott of governments that practised apartheid?" she fumed. As a chronicler of repression in Tibet, Ms Woeser has long been China's most daring voice online, and a very rare one. Ms Woeser's dogged determination, despite close surveillance by security agents in Beijing where she lives with her (Han Chinese) husband, has kept open a rare window on conditions in Tibetan-inhabit- ed areas. These have been largely off-limits to foreign journalists since riots in Lhasa in 2008. The 46-year-old writer scours the social media for titbits of news from the plateau, passing them on through her blog, "Invisible Tibet", or on Twitter. Her postings are in Chinese, which has helped to raise awareness among non-Tibetans.