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| Subject: Rights violation: Oppressive China vows to silence Dalai Lama in Tibet Sat Nov 02, 2013 6:00 pm | |
| China's ruling Communist Party aims to silence the voice of the Dalai Lama in his Tibetan homeland by tightening controls on media and the internet, a top official says.
The party's top-ranking official in the Tibet region, Chen Quanguo, vowed to "ensure that the voices of hostile forces and the Dalai group are not seen or heard", in an editorial published in a party journal called Qiushi.
Officials would "make sure that the voice of the party is heard and seen everywhere in this vast 120 million-square-kilometre region", Chen wrote.
China has worked for decades to control the spread of information in Tibet, but some Tibetans remain able to access non-official sources of information, including from exiles abroad by using radio, television and the internet.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/china-vows-to-silence-dalai-lama-in-tibet-20131102-2wtta.html#ixzz2jWnrPl85 |
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