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Students protest against discrimination in Amdo Labrang

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In this image taken with a mobile device, made available by Students for a Free Tibet, which purports to show pedestrians walking amid Chinese law enforcement on 14 March 2008, in Sangchu County, Kanlho “Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture”, Gansu Province, China. The area is traditionally known to Tibetans as Amdo Labrang. A group of students from a school in Sangchu have protested against Chinese authorities’ discrimination against them.File photo/SFT handout/Tibet

A group of Tibetan students staged a demonstration at their school to protest the Chinese authorities’ discrimination against them in the traditional Amdo Labrang region of Tibet, according to the Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy (TCHRD).

The students from Sangchu, near Labrang in Amdo, now incorporated into China’s Gansu Province, reportedly demonstrated against the authorities’ false practice of granting reserved seats for higher education meant for the Tibetan students to the Chinese students.

The students set off from their school in the morning and headed towards the county market area raising slogans.

Police stopped the students in the outskirts of the market, and brought them back to the school. The police cordoned off the school barring anyone from going in or coming out, TCHRD reported.

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