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• China’s Theft of Tibetan Ballots Threatens Democracy Everywhere

  14 October 2010, by Tendor

  Last Sunday on October 3rd, thousands of Tibetans went to the polls to vote for the Prime Minister and MPs of the Tibetan Government-in-Exile. This relatively low-key event proceeded smoothly in dozens of countries — except in Nepal, the Himalayan country sandwiched between Chinese-occupied Tibet and India, where armed police stormed the voting stations and confiscated the ballot boxes. Tibetan voters looked on in shock and fury, helpless as their ballots, and their democratic rights, were (...)

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