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Sonam, a Tibetan student at Northwest Minzu University in Lanzhou city in Gansu province, has been detained for writing an essay in which he lamented the decline in the number of government job opportunities for Tibetans. His essay is reported to have gone viral on social media and reflects the general feeling among Tibetans that jobs in Tibet go to Han Chinese, not Tibetans.
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