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Article: Fire under the snow: testimony of a Tibetan prisoner.
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- New Internationalist
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 New Internationalist Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Palden Gyatso
(Written by Tsering Shakya with a Foreword by the Dalai Lama)
(Harvill Press ISBN 1 86046-1 16-6)
WHEN, on 9 October, 1967, the Bolivian military captured and killed the 39-year-old guerrilla leader, Ernesto `Che' Guevara, he was already a world-famous figure. The attempts to cover up his murder - his hands were amputated and he was secretly buried - only added martyrdom to the myths and legends gathering around his name. In the 30 years since his death, Che Guevara has become one of the icons of the century; Cuban children chant `We will be like Che!' and his image emblazons everything from bedsit posters to beer bottles.
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