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New Oppression Measures

February 15, 2019;

New indicators of China’s strengthening of their repressive policies and institutionalisation of Tibet are emerging with reports of measures to achieve a complete “ideological shift”. A training camp under paramilitary supervision has opened near Shigatse in Tibet, providing ideological training to Party cadres deployed across Tibet while a large “Tibet Youth Palace” is to open shortly in Lhasa with the aim of strengthening “patriotic education” for young people.

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