Word: tibet
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...filled with ramshackle Uighur homes. "Now it's a little bit better. The government has come and they're enforcing the law. The People's Armed Police are here, and they're keeping the Han away." Later in the day, the Uighur residents dismantled the barrier. (Read "The Other Tibet...
...arrests of their husbands, sons and brothers. Six buses full of foreign and Chinese reporters had been taken to a neighborhood southeast of Urumqi's Grand Bazaar to see an auto dealership that was burned by rioters on July 5. (See pictures of the March 2008 riots in Tibet...
...some 90 more were still being sought on Monday afternoon. "I fear for what is to come," said Nicholas Bequelin, a China researcher for New York City-based Human Rights Watch. "China has a very poor record of accountability when it comes to those arrested for protesting. In Tibet, for example, there are still hundreds unaccounted for by the government's own admission." (See pictures of the March 2008 riots in Tibet...
...Time and again and around the world - from as recently as Tibet in 2008, to Egypt in 2005, to Tiananmen in 1989 - the prospects of reform dim considerably without international support. In fact, we know of no modern democratic evolution or revolution that has succeeded without some support and pressure from the west...
...influence, and powerful monks will jockey to place their own candidates. The political needs of their lineage also figure. And sometimes the consensus-based system doesn't yield a clear winner: Tibetan history crackles with bloody battles between rival claimants or their camps. (See pictures of a new Tibet...