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| Subject: Disgusting Senior Communist Party Prick Threatens Tibetan Clergy Thu Feb 19, 2009 8:20 pm | |
| A senior Communist Party official has warned monks and nuns in Tibet to refrain from carrying out any political activity in the run-up to the first anniversary of the anti-Chinese uprising last March, according to an article published on Thursday in the Tibet Daily, an official newspaper. The official, Lobsang Gyaincain, a member of the standing committee of the regional Communist Party, said the clergy must not take part in activities aimed at “splitting the motherland.” The Tibet Daily also reported that senior leaders, in a conference held on Wednesday, called on security forces to crush any signs of support for the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans. Security forces have fanned out across the Tibetan region of China even as many Tibetans have been calling for a boycott of festivities during Losar, the Tibetan New Year, which begins Wednesday.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/world/asia/20tibetbrf.html?src=SkimWO |
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