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INTERNATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR TIBET<br />
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‘Devastating Blows: Religious Repression of Uighurs in Xinjiang,’ Human Rights Watch, April 2005,<br />
www.hrw.org.<br />
16<br />
‘Autonomy in Xinjiang: Han nationalist imperatives and Uyghur discontent,’ Gardner Bovingdon, Policy<br />
Studies No. 11, East-West Center, Washington DC, 2004.<br />
17<br />
See ‘People’s Republic of China: No justice <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> victims of <strong>the</strong> 1997 crackdown in Gulja,’ February 4,<br />
2003, www.amnesty.org.<br />
18 ‘<br />
Across China, Security Instead Of Celebration,’ Washington Post, July 19, 2008, www.washingtonpost.com.<br />
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For an overview of <strong>the</strong> Western Development Strategy and its significance, see ICT’s <strong>report</strong>, ‘Tracking <strong>the</strong><br />
Steel Dragon’, www.savetibet.org.<br />
20<br />
See endnote 19.<br />
21<br />
See endnote 19, p. 40.<br />
22<br />
‘Ethnic Minority Elites in China’s Party-State Leadership,’ Cheng Li, China Leadership Monitor, No. 25,<br />
Summer 2008.<br />
23<br />
See ‘Party Congress Promotes Officials Linked to Harsh Policies Toward <strong>Tibet</strong>ans,’ CECC, January 23, 2008,<br />
www.cecc.gov; citing: ‘Two CPC Decision-making Groups Involving <strong>Tibet</strong>, Xinjiang Made Public,’ Singtao<br />
Daily, April 18, 2007.<br />
24<br />
‘Jia Qinglin, Standing Committee Member of <strong>the</strong> CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and Chairman<br />
of <strong>the</strong> National Committee of <strong>the</strong> Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), Chairs <strong>the</strong><br />
First Study Session of <strong>the</strong> 11th CPPCC Standing Committee,’ Xinhua, July 5, 2008.<br />
25<br />
‘Religion has a role to play: Jia,’ China Daily, March 5, 2007, www.chinadaily.com.cn.<br />
26<br />
‘Senior Chinese leader Jia Qinglin stresses protection of <strong>Tibet</strong>an culture,’ Xinhua, October 10, 2008.<br />
27<br />
‘China military <strong>for</strong>ces defend <strong>Tibet</strong> crackdown,’ Reuters, March 16, 2008.<br />
28<br />
Channel 4 News, UK, and ‘Lord Coe condemns Chinese flame protectors as “horrible thugs,”’ The Times,<br />
April 8, 2008, www.timesonline.co.uk.<br />
29<br />
‘New measures on reincarnation reveal Party’s objectives of political control,’ ICT, August 15, 2007,<br />
www.savetibet.org.<br />
30<br />
‘National Seminar Held on Reincarnation of Living Buddhas in <strong>Tibet</strong>an Areas,’ Sing Tao Jih Pao, September<br />
13, 2007.<br />
31<br />
‘Think thrice when <strong>the</strong> dust is settled,’ People’s Daily, April 16, 2008.<br />
32<br />
‘<strong>Tibet</strong> deaths and protests shadow Olympics,’ Reuters, March 25, 2008.<br />
33<br />
For a detailed discussion and analysis of <strong>the</strong> central government’s fiscal policies in <strong>the</strong> TAR, see: ‘Perversities<br />
of Extreme Dependence and Unequal Growth in <strong>the</strong> TAR,’ Andrew Fischer, <strong>Tibet</strong> Watch Special Report,<br />
August 2007, www.tibetwatch.org.<br />
34<br />
‘Central Government Envoys Have Considerable Experience in <strong>Tibet</strong>’, Ta Kong Pao, July 1, 2008.<br />
35<br />
See: ‘Party Congress Promotes Officials Linked to Harsh Policies Toward <strong>Tibet</strong>ans,’ CECC, January 23, 2008,<br />
www.cecc.gov, citing ‘<strong>Tibet</strong>ans “wasting money” on donations to monasteries,’ South China Morning Post,<br />
March 14, 2000.)<br />
36<br />
See: ‘The Execution of Lobsang Dondrub and <strong>the</strong> Case Against Tenzin Deleg: The Law, <strong>the</strong> Courts, and <strong>the</strong><br />
Debate on Legality,’ CECC, February 10, 2003, www.cecc.gov; see also: ‘Trials of a <strong>Tibet</strong>an Monk: The Case<br />
of Tenzin Delek,’ HRW, February 2004, www.hrw.org.<br />
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