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China bars foreign journalists, tourists from Tibet
Published on Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:57, Updated on Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 20:11 in 
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Chengdu (China): China is now barring foreign journalists from entering Tibet. And it's no longer approving travel permits for tourists. Still eyewitness' accounts describing last week's violence have begun to trickle out of the region.
Time and time again, police have made it clear that no pictures can be taken inside Tibet. The photos cannot be taken even in the city of Chengdu, almost 1,000 miles from Tibet.
In Tibet, roadblocks are keeping reporters well away and China's Foreign Correspondents Club says journalists have been obstructed by officials at least 30 times in Lhasa, Beijing, Xining, Chengdu and Gansu province.
James Miles, with the Economist, was in Lhasa on a government approved visit when the violence erupted.
"I think it is very likely that Han Chinese were killed," Miles says about the violence
He also reported for CNN but by Tuesday, when his permission expired, he was told to leave.
On Sunday, a crew from Hong Kong Cable, hiding in the Tibetan capital, managed to broadcast some extraordinary live pictures.
Hours later, they were found, and ordered to move out.
China has sanctioned only those images, which show Tibetans on a rampage in Lhasa.
There are no sign of how Chinese troops restored order and more recently new video showing calm has now returned.
At the same time, Chinese officials have accused some western reporters of bias.
"In some of your reporting we can also see the involvement of Dalai clique," a Chinese official said.
A similar allegation has been made by Chinese bloggers, in particular accusing CNN of distorting a photograph, which didn't show Tibetan protesters throwing stones at Chinese trucks.
The photo was cropped because technically it was impossible to include the crashed car on the left and the protesters on the right.
But the picture was labeled "Tibetans throw stones at army vehicle". And it is just one of many photographs, which have shown Tibetans attacking ethnic Chinese, and damaging Chinese owned businesses.
That one photo may have been the trigger for many here to vent a much bigger mistrust of the international media, fueled in part by years of Communist propaganda from Beijing, and a state controlled media which almost always tows the party line.
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