From Reuters, via ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
The Chinese Government will move more than 52,000 Tibetan herders and farmers into permanent housing this year – a practice rights groups say has been marked by abuses.
“The project to improve their living conditions began in 2006, when the regional Government set a target of building homes for 220,000 households,” the official Xinhua news agency said, citing local government officials.
“That would mean housing 80 per cent of the region’s farmers and herders by the end of 2010.” [Full Text]
