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[davywavy]

Browsing the BBC website at the latest news for the recent earthquake in Asian, I came across this refence map which shows the affected region. There's a lot of effort been made to show the political reality - Indian and Pakistani controlled Kashmir is clearly marked.

Hang on a minute, I thought. Isn't something missing here? Looking at another map, I see that something quite large has been entirely removed from the BCC map of the region.

Perhaps someone should write the BBC and point out that they've missed an entire country off their map? You know, Tibet - big place, a lot of hills, ancient and honourable history. You can't miss it.
Or could it be that the BBC is so afraid of offending the Chinese government that they've decided to airbrush an illegal invasion and slaughter of civilians out of history?

Comments

[vierkilau.livejournal.com]

East Timor is a recognised state by the U.N wheras Tibet isn't. Although putting Kashmir as seperate controlling states is odd

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It was the punctiliousness about specifying which bits of Kashmir were controlled by whom compared with the removal of Tibet that made me notice it; if the map had simply been 'India, Pakistan China' I doubt I would ahve noticed anything wrong.

[vierkilau.livejournal.com]

Yeah it did make me double take. Maybe we should start a campaign for Ruritania to be included on maps