Photo of Chinese forces with monks' robes proves illusory

[snopes]

A photo that seems to show Chinese paramilitary forces carrying monks' robes provides conclusive evidence, those spreading it through e-mail claim, that the Chinese staged Tibet riots last month to justify a government crackdown.

But the photo, widely distributed via the Internet, appears likely to be a 7-year-old image taken during a film shoot.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,5031677.story

[Tahanala]

I got that one in the mail... Which means it made its way to France.

At first glance, it was obvious it wasn't a "secret image take by satellite": Satellites are up there, so the angle would have been dramatically wrong.

Obviously.