Tibetan nuns who live in India pray during a protest in New Delhi December 31, 2009 against what they say are human right violation by the Chinese government against Tibetans. REUTERS/Reinhard Krause
BEIJING (Reuters) - China has no intention of altering its "correct" policies in the restive region of Tibet as they have brought unprecedented achievements, a government white paper said on Tuesday, slamming the romanticised notion Tibet was once an idyllic fairyland.
China has long defended its iron-fisted rule in remote and mountainous Tibet, saying the region suffered from dire poverty, brutal exploitation of serfs and economic stagnation until 1950, when Communist troops "peacefully liberated" Tibet and introduced "democratic reforms" in 1959.
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