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Tibetan Land Confiscations

April 17, 2020;

A notice issued by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in Thunrin County, Rabgong in eastern Tibet has stated that Tibetans could be forced from their lands to make way for the Xining-Chengdu express railway. The CCP notice declared that confiscations would being by April 10 and though some form of compensation was promised, according to the exiled Central Tibetan Administration, historically “such promises of compensation have usually never been fulfilled”.

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