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China Clamps Down on Tibetans

Posted Mar 20, 08 4:33 AM CDT in World 

(Newser) – The Chinese government has acknowledged for the first time that  rioting has spread from Tibet into neighboring provinces, as it forcefully reasserted control, setting up roadblocks with armed police in areas with large Tibetan populations. In Gansu, hundreds of Tibetans, many on horseback, stormed a government compound, burned the Chinese flag  and hoisted the Tibetan emblem Tuesday.  

Foreigners have been banned from the troubled regions. A BBC journalist who managed to avoid checkpoints found that a Tibetan-inhabited town in Gansu was like an armed camp, with police lining the streets and few citizens venturing outside. Sporadic unrest is said to be continuing in western China.

Sources Associated Press, BBC

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A young Tibetan looks at Chinese riot policemen standing guard in Kangding county, the capital of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in China's southwestern Sichuan province on March 20, 2008.   (Getty Images)
A shop burns during a protest western China's Gansu province, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. Chinese state media acknowledged Thursday that anti-government riots spread to other provinces.   (AP Photo/Free Tibet Campaign, HO)
Buildings were burnt during a protest in Maqu, western China's Gansu province, Tuesday, March 18, 2008.   (AP Photo/Free Tibet Campaign, HO)
Chinese riot policemen stand guard in Kangding county, the capital of Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, in China's southwestern Sichuan province on March 20, 2008.   (Getty Images)
Chinese paramilitary police unload equipment on a road on the outskirts of Hutiaoxia, southeast of Zhongdian, in China's Yunnan province Thursday March 20, 2008.   (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
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