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Tibetan protests: Chinese rejection of Dalai Lama’s autonomy overtures

	March 31, 2008

Harjit Singh The violent Tibetan protests in Lhasa marking the 49th anniversary of the failed uprising, which caused widespread destruction of property and killed dozens of people, could not have come at a more wrong time for the Chinese Government. The protest came when the rubber-stamp Chinese Parliamentwas in session in Beijing where President Hu Jintao and Prime Minister Wen Jiabao were presenting the progress report of their first terms to the deputies. Also, the Tibetan pr ...