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Tibet turmoil intensifies as Xi Jinping takes China's Reins

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Nov 17, 2012
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On Thursday, as the Chinese Communist Party unveiled its new leadership slate headed by Xi Jinping in Beijing, far across in the Himalayan plateau yet another disturbance engulfed the Tibet region, a twin self-immolation by teenagers in protest against Chinese rule of Tibet.

That brought the number of self-immolations to at least 74, of which 10 have tak…

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