New Delhi: A group of foreign diplomats were taken on a guided tour to the Tibetan Capital Lhasa.
This was a government organized trip a week after the unrest there.
The diplomats visited a torn down clothing shop, where five girls, one of them Tibetan, were burnt to death on March 14.
The group also visited hospitals and monasteries and talked to victims, their families and monks.
While some members of the group agreed with the Chinese stand that life in Lhasa has returned to normal, others didn't buy it.
They said, the delegation was not allowed to move independently and was unable to hold unsupervised conversations with local residents.
The delegation's buses passed through the Beijing Middle Road, Qingnian Road, North and East Linkuo roads on which some shops and institutions were smashed, looted and burnt by the rioters. Then they arrived at the Second Middle School of Lhasa, which was partially burnt in the riot.
The diplomats returned to Beijing late Saturday evening.
The trip was arranged by China's Foreign Ministry and the government of the Tibet Autonomous Region.
(With agency inputs)
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