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The public security bureau in Gannan, an area in the south of Gansu designated a Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, arrested Kunchok Tsephel Gopey Tsang on February 26, according to overseas Tibetan rights groups.
Boing Boing 2009
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Worst hit was the county seat of Zhouqu in the province's Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, with the official Xinhua News Agency reporting half of it under water.
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The Gannan courts tried 16 cases of "violent crimes of 'March 14' smashing, looting, beating and burning" involving 27 people.
Human Rights Watch: Year After Tibet Riots, Hundreds Of Detainees And Prisoners Unaccounted For 2009
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In Gannan (Tibetan: Kanhlo) Prefecure, home to over half a million Tibetans, the authorities had publicly reported that through April 8, 2008, law enforcement agencies had put 432 protesters under criminal detention, accepted the "voluntary surrenders" of 2,224 people having taken part in violent protests, and released 1,870 people.
Human Rights Watch: Year After Tibet Riots, Hundreds Of Detainees And Prisoners Unaccounted For 2009
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The research team spent one month in Lhasa and Gannan province, interviewing Tibetan monks, nomads, farmers, scholars, migrants, artists, and businesspeople, to try to understand "the lives and thoughts of ordinary people."
Rebecca Novick: The Tibet Question: A Chinese Think Tank Dares to Ask 2009
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The names, whereabouts, charges and place of detentions of people detained and awaiting trial in Gannan were never detailed, and no conviction there was ever publicly reported by the government or national state media.
Human Rights Watch: Year After Tibet Riots, Hundreds Of Detainees And Prisoners Unaccounted For 2009
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In fairness: Bush should be forced to testify, under oath, about his relationship to Jeff Gannan the male hooker!
Think Progress » Zakaria: Rumsfeld ‘Seems In A Parallel Universe and Slightly Deranged’ 2006
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In the same article they mention this interesting form of speech: Hezhouhoua is spoken in the Linxia Hui Autonomous Prefecture and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of southern Gansu Province, and in neighboring areas in Qinghai Province.
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Calls to the government of the Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, which includes Xiahe and the Labrang monastery, went unanswered.
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The Panchen Lama may be preparing to be based in Gannan, instead of Beijing where he lives, according to the International Campaign for Tibet.
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