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Tsering Dhundup
DHARAMSHALA, Aug 7: As China prepares for high-profile celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the so-called “Tibet Autonomous Region” (TAR), a province-level administrative division in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) which encompasses merely half of traditional Tibet on September 9, a leading advocacy group has accused Beijing of decades of deception, repression, and cultural destruction in Tibet.
In a statement issued on August 6, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet (ICT) said the anniversary is no cause for celebration for Tibetans living under Chinese rule, who continue to endure religious restrictions, language suppression, and forced assimilation.
“For our brothers and sisters in Tibet, the last sixty years have lurched from one calamity to another,” sa...
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