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Pressure on Disabled Tibetans

June 16, 2020;

Disabled people seeking employment in Tibet are being pressured into denouncing His Holiness the Dalai Lama and supporting “the [Chinese Communist] Party’s leadership and socialist system”. A Chinese government notice obtained by Radio Free Asia states that applicants for low-paying jobs, including drivers, cleaners and kitchen helpers, must “have a firm stand on the political principles of anti-secession, criticizing the Dalai [Lama], safeguarding the reunification of the motherland”.

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