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Land Grab in Ngaba

October 31, 2013;

Chinese police have forced a group of 16 elderly Tibetan villagers to end a month-long sit-in demonstration against appropriation of their land in Ngaba County in northeastern Tibet. Land of over 2680 square meters belonging to the group, representing 16 families, was seized by the local government in 1986 after it promised to provide government jobs to the affected family.

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