Background on Tibet & actual stories

Today I have very little to add to the two excellent posts on Agam's blog:
SOME GOOD READING ON TIBET AND CHINA provides a quite interesting collection of articles via links, a must-read for people interested in Tibet.
TIBETANS STEADFAST, WITH NO LET-UP IN CHINA'S REPRESSION reports on a murder on a girl with a vengeance, which makes you wonder if some of the Chinese qualify as humans, and it ends with a lovely story I want to share here from Letter from Lhasa:

"Yesterday I saw a little boy, around one or two years old; that I believed displayed a good example of Tibetan spirit.
The baby looked as if he had just learnt how to walk and was out with his grandmother and her little dog. They were standing in front of the Jokhang Square where military in blue ensures nobody crosses the square. The baby walked up the three steps to the square and started to make prostrations towards the Jokhang while his grandmother also prayed but her frail body prevented her from prostrating as well. When the boy finished he looked at the guards, then at his grandmother, and then started to walk closer to the temple. The guards looked at the baby, not knowing what to do. After about ten meters the baby boy stopped and prostrated again, then turned around, walked back to one of the guards and took his hand to say goodbye.
Seeing this reminded me that all Tibetan people want is religious freedom and the right to preserve their culture."

OM MANI PADME HUM