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An overt police presence has been intimidating pilgrims during the Chotrul Monlam, a major religious festival at Kumbum Monastery in the Qinghai province in Tibet. Similar tactics were deployed at the same festival last year. Radio Free Asia reports that Chinese visitors are being allowed in to see the displays of butter sculptures without waiting, “while Tibetan pilgrims…have to wait in long lines”.
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