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Tibetan Shops Destroyed

February 27, 2019;

Fourteen Tibetan shops have been destroyed by fire at the Tibetan complex in Itanagar in Arunachal Pradesh in north east India. The ongoing row about the status of Tibetans and other ethnic communities in Arunachal has escalated and has turned violent with mobs, protests, ransacking and now arson, this despite a curfew and police using firearms (firing blanks) to control the situation.

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