The Chinese government forcefully relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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The Chinese government forcefully relocated 250,000 Tibetans - nearly one-tenth the population - from scattered rural hamlets to new “socialist villages,” ordering them to build housing largely at their own expense and without their consent. The government calls the more than year-old project the “comfortable housing program.”
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