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BEIJING: China warned on Saturday that it would step up a
controversial “re-education” campaign for Tibetans after a fresh
protest showed a huge security crackdown had failed to extinguish
nearly one month of unrest. The statement in the state-run Tibet
Daily newspaper called for Buddhist monks to become Chinese
patriots, but activist groups said the heavy-handed techniques
already employed in the campaign were inflaming tensions. Efforts by
authorities to “re-educate” monks at a monastery in Sichuan
province in southwest China led to protests that at least eight
Tibetans were killed, the activist groups said. Tibetans have been
protesting in anger over what they say has been widespread
repression under nearly six decades of Chinese rule.
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