By International Campaign for Tibet Officials Inspect Construction of New Police Stations in Monasteries as Crackdown Continues The authorities have made a rare admission that large-scale migration from China, particularly linked to the opening of the new railway from Qinghai to the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) in 2006, may have been a factor in triggering the unrest in Lhasa in March. As the crackdown continues across the Tibetan plateau following the spring uprising, a high-level team of senior leaders of Sichuan province visited a rural Tibetan area to inspect security work, notably the construction of police stations in monasteries, to be operational before the end of the year. In Lhasa this week, the official press has published examples of 'moral exemplars' chosen by the TAR Civilization Committee, and including a...
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