Gabriel Lafitte
Gabriel Lafitte is a development policy consultant to the Environment & Development Desk of the Tibetan government in exile based in India.
In 1999 he was asked by Tibetans to assess a World Bank project in Tibetan areas of Qinghai province, that proposed alleviating poverty by sending tens of thousands of non-Tibetan settlers to displace Tibetan nomads. While at the World Bank site he was detained and interrogated by China’s state security force for a week, then deported. He recently returned to China to present a plan to a state-sponsored conference on poverty, for improving Tibetan livelihoods by interbreeding Australian carpet wool sheep.
Gabriel contributed to two reports just published, which explain the roots of Tibetan discontent: http://www.tibet.net/en/diir/pubs/edi/tib2007/content.tml www.savtetibet.org/documents/document.php?id=245
Website: Save Tibet
Articles by Gabriel Lafitte on newmatilda.com:
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China employs particularly effective torture methods on Tibetan monks, reveals advisor to the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Gabriel Lafitte
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The monks and nuns leading the protest in Tibet know they will die - and they're ready for it, writes adviser to the Tibetan Government-in-exile, Gabriel Lafitte
