Below is her impression:

'The monks were very emotional, and some of them were crying. They said they had been held inside the temple against their will for 17 days. Others asked the journalists to highlight the Tibetans' plight. I'm saddened by what I've seen. In the daytime, there are lots of plainclothes policemen in the city centre. After dark, there are riot police and checkpoints as well. We saw very few Tibetans on the streets.

'A taxi driver told us the Tibetans involved in the riots won't dare come out and those not involved are scared of being arrested.

'Those who suffered in the riots, be they Han Chinese or Tibetans, are all victims of the government's inappropriate ethnic policy, I think.

'The Han Chinese whose shops were wrecked during the rioting said they never expected such violence, and that relations with the locals had been good all along. But many scholars said in recent weeks that this was something waiting to happen.'