Sky Burial: An Eyewitness Account of China’s Brutal Crackdown in Tibet

Description

While traveling through Tibet in 1987 on his way to Everest, an American physician and his old college friend inadvertently walked into one of the grimmest scenes of political oppression in the world. Though they knew that Tibet had long been subject to Chinese military rule, their outrage grew as a series of demonstrations by Tibetan monks were swiftly and brutally quashed by Chinese forces.