By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years
China yesterday scrambled to contain the global fallout from days of bloody clashes in Tibet, as protests around the globe put the spotlight on Beijing's human rights record just months before it hosts the Olympic Games.
"Taking the torch into Tibet would not only be wrong, it would be dangerous," Kelsang Gope, head of Tibet's unofficial olympic committee, told the Reuters news agency.