{"id":31629,"date":"2012-12-27T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2012-12-27T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=31629 "},"modified":"2012-12-27T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2012-12-27T15:11:00","slug":"31629-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=31629","title":{"rendered":"China seizes TVs, satellite equipment in Tibetan area"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BEIJING | Thu Dec 27, 2012 3:46am EST<\/div>
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(Reuters) – Chinese authorities have confiscated televisions from 300 monasteries in a heavily Tibetan part of the west of the country and dismantled satellite equipment that broadcast “anti-China” programs, prompted by Tibetan self-immolations in the region.<\/div>
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Some 94 Tibetans, including 81 this year, have set themselves on fire in protest against Chinese rule. Five self-immolations occurred in Tibetan-dominated Huangnan prefecture in Qinghai province, the state-run Qinghai news agency said on Thursday.<\/div>
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The government in Huangnan said its approach in tackling self-immolations comprised of “guiding public opinion on the Dalai issue”, increasing patrols and “blocking outside harmful information”, according to the news agency, which is managed by the Qinghai government.<\/div>
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“At this critical moment for maintaining social stability in Huangnan prefecture … (we must) strengthen measures and fully fight the special battle against self-immolations,” the article said.<\/div>
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“We do not know anything about it,” an official from the Huangnan prefecture government told Reuters by telephone, when asked to confirm the report, before hanging up.<\/div>
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Beijing considers Nobel peace laureate the Dalai Lama, who fled China in 1959 after an abortive uprising against Chinese rule, a separatist. The Dalai Lama says he is merely seeking greater autonomy for his Himalayan homeland.<\/div>
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The article said the prefecture’s agricultural and pastoral areas had relied on certain satellite equipment “to watch and listen to overseas, anti-China programs”.<\/div>
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The local government would invest 8.64 million yuan ($1.39 million) to install 50 transmitters that would broadcast 70 percent of the prefecture’s television channels, the report said.<\/div>
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China has repeatedly denounced the Dalai Lama and exiled Tibetan groups for fomenting the self-immolations.<\/div>
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The United States and several other countries have called on China to end repressive policies and to negotiate with the Dalai Lama.<\/div>
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Beijing has defended its iron-fisted rule in Tibet, saying the remote region suffered from dire poverty, brutal exploitation of serfs and economic stagnation until 1950 when Communist troops “peacefully liberated” it.<\/div>
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(Reporting by Sui-Lee Wee, Additional reporting by Huang Yan; Editing by Nick Macfie)<\/div>
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