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By Phurbu Thinley Dharamsala, October 9: Tibetan activists paraded a demonized effigy, bearing photos of Chinese President Hu Jintao and Zhang Qingli, the current Chinese Communist Party Secretary to Tibet, before setting it on fire here today. They called the effigy “China’s Ravan” and their act a symbolic celebration of the concluding day of Dussehra. Dussehra is celebrated by Hindus as victory of “Good over evil” in which a Hindu mythological demon King Ravana is put on fire to mark end of evil’s reign. Members of Students for a Free Tibet (SFT), India, today labeled Hu Jintao, who imposed Martial Law in Lhasa on March 8, 1989 following series of demonstrations by Tibetans during his tenure as the Chinese Communist Party Secretary to Tibet, as "China's Ravan". During the reign of the Martial decree, which lasted for 13... [read full story]
