From the Taipei Times: Tibetan nomads ordered to settle down in cities for the sake of the environment.

     China is ordering 100,000 ethnic Tibetans to give up their traditional nomadic habits and settle in towns because their way of life is threatening the environment, state press reported yesterday.

     Overgrazing from the Tibetan herders' livestock and the growing number of people living on the grasslands of China's Qinghai Province are endangering the source of the nation's great rivers, Xinhua news agency said.

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     By the end of this year, 60,000 Tibetans will have been moved into new towns in Qinghai, with the number to grow to 100,000 by 2010, Xinhua reported, citing a government document and local environment officials.

     While the agency highlighted compensation packages of up to 8,000 yuan (US$1,060) a year for families, it acknowledged that not all Tibetans were happy with having to give up the lifestyles their families have known for centuries.

     The real reason for this order is so the commies can keep an eye on their restive and for their liking all too independant and self sufficient subjects.  This along with the deliberate efforts to flood Tibet with ethnic chinese is clearly aimed at creating a situation that short of external miltary intervention it would be politically impossible for Tibet to be free of the Chinese yoke.  This move also reinforces the fact that the reds in china realy haven't changed all that much since the sixties, they still have no respect for history and tradition, given that they are trying to destroy one of the last remaning Asian nomad cultures.  Much like the misguided three gorges dam they don't give a damn about protecting history when it gets in the way of their misguided and foolish schemes.  The sooner these bastards are kicked to the curb the better, for they have inflicted far too much suffering on far too many people for far too long a time.

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