Richard Gere upset at Buddhist's lingering opression
Richard Gere is appailled to hear oppression is still a big part of life for Tibetan Buddhists' almost two decades after he filmed the extent of China's occupation.
The Pretty Woman actor and devout Buddhist flew to Seol on Wednesday to unveil a Tibet-themed photo exhibition called Pilgrim, which is made up of over 60 images taken by Gere himself.
The star took the moving photographs throughout his 1993 trip to the area, and Gere is not happy to see the same abuse and suffering he saw all those years ago in both Tibet and China.
He tells the Korea Herald: "I think it’s impossible to look at these photographs and not realise the extraordinary suffering of the Tibetan people... The same kind of torture and deaths in Chinese prisons in Tibet is still taking place today.
"Of course it’s not only in Tibet. The Chinese communist government does it to their own people in China as well."
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