The most useful evidence as to city location should be the two
pedicabs one of which has a registration plate. In all these years of
looking at photos from Tibet I have never come across such pedicabs.
Indeed in a hilly place such as Lhasa pedicabs wouldn't be that
practical way to get around. I don't recall seeing this style of
pedicab in Guangzhou or Beijing, especially with that frilly top. But
the url here does describe pedicabs in Lhasa (no photo)
http://en.tibettour.com.cn/transport/200402004430145940.htm
Photo the style of pedicabs Beijing is quite different.
http://www.chinapictures.org/photo/transportation/misc/40416113100863/
The first thought was the photo is from Myanmar. I guess not as none
of the civillians wore a sarong and sandals and they look more warmly
dressed than the Burmese in this photo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/asia_pac_enl_1190808522/html/1....
I am somewhat familiar with PLA uniforms. There are lots of videos on
China's massive and impressive 1999 50th Anniversary Parade. Ranks
include the PLA army, navy, air force, civil defence, armed police
etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru-xQac_sWw&feature=related
See also Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_07
The color and style of the PLA uniforms are quite different from the
ones that say the PLA was posing as monks.
http://buddhism.kalachakranet.org/chinese-orchestrating-riots-tibet.htm
But here is a video from a 1984 parade where the PLA uniform does look
similar to the one in the "posing as monks" photo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vM2SJ1F5ZZ8&feature=related
From WIKI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibet The CIA supported Tibetan
insurrection was between 1956 and 1959. CIA support lasted until
1972. I don't know what PLA uniforms looked like then except they
were generally sloppy and, at one time, did not have insignia. My
memory was that military rank insignia was restored when DXP came into
power in 1978.
In the balance the evidence points to the "posing as monks" photo as
being from a earlier era and certainly before the 1999 Parade
uniforms. None of the uniformed soldiers was wearing a monk's robe.
So what they were doing with them is a matter of conjecture. The
important point is that this is a photo dated from before 1999 for
certain and therefore has nothing to do with the present 2008 riots.
