On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 05:12:10 -0700 (PDT), TuoLongDuong
<jismquiff@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>A Lhasa resident who spoke on condition of anonymity said a friend of
>hers had been shopping at a government store in the area when someone
>ran in about 2 p.m. saying another riot had begun.
>
>The woman ran out to the street but could not get a taxi or bus to
>stop. "Everybody was in a panic," her friend said she told her.
>
>The cellphone signal in the area had apparently been cut off, so the
>woman ran for nearly an hour to reach her home. She told her friend
>that she did not see a protest and that the streets were empty.
If she had been shopping for essential groceries I can understand.
The impression here is this woman and the other customers were
shopping for trifles. In a city where the tension, an anti Han a race
riot, has not fully dissipated yet that's a downright stupid thing to
do. And I'd certainly not shop in a place that takes me an hour to
get home on foot. Lhasa's population is only 123,000 smaller than or
about the size of my named low density residential neighborhood
development and voting zone. 20 minutes tops to walk between the
furthest ends. That one hour to run home is not believable. Travel
by bus? Likely. Take a taxi to shop? People aren't that rich. If
they can afford a taxi to go shopping they can afford their own car.
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