‘A Mad, Furious Scene’ - Dartmouth Alumni Magazine

March - April 2012

By Robbie Vorhaus

“Blake Kerr is a family doctor, human rights activist and author of Sky Burial: An Eyewitness Account of China’s Brutal Crackdown in Tibet (1993). After gaining notoriety while visiting Tibet for the first time in 1987, he was invited to meet with the exiled Dalai Lama in India. This became the first of five visits through 1999 during which Kerr shared what he observed of Chinese oppression. In December he testified as the final expert witness in Spain’s six-year international trial against Chinese leaders accused of crimes against humanity in Tibet. Shortly after his return Kerr sat down in his home in Water Mill, New York, to talk about his experiences…”