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Dalai Lama: ‘China’s human rights abuses getting worse’

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Tibet’s spiritual leader and Nobel prize winner the Dalai Lama says that human rights abuses in China have gotten worse since the country was chose to host the 2008 Olympics.

China says it has a historical right to govern Tibet, a land which it has insisted is part of China since annexing in 1951.

Tibetans continue to suffer harsh treatment by the Chinese government and are punished for having images of the Dalai Lama in their possession.

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