09. Mar 2009
China tightens TAR border controls
(Xinhua) Chinese forces have tightened border controls between the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and neighbouring countries ahead of "expected sabotage activities" by supporters of the Dalai Lama, Xinhua reported. "We have made due deployment and tightened controls at border ports, and key areas and passages along the border in Tibet" said Fu Hongyu, the political commissar of the public security ministry's Border Control Department. The tightening of Tibet's long Himalayan border with India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar was to ensure stability during the NPC in Beijing, and to guard against "expected sabotage activities by the Dalai Lama clique". Kang Jinzhong, the political commissar of the region's paramilitary forces, said his troops were "ready to handle any infiltration and sabotage activities by the Dalai Lama clique and other hostile forces".