China: June 1, 2000

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Effective today, China tightened its control of the Tiber-Nepal border. This was in reaction to the defection of the Karmapa Lama last December. Several local guides were arrested and sentenced to prison for showing the Lama the way into Nepal. It is no longer as easy for Tibetan exiles to get back into Tibet now. 

 

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