Published by: World Tibet Network News, Wednesday, May 1, 1996

April 30, 1996

Human Rights Desk (DIIR)

Earlier this month, a report was received that some 500,000

ethnic Chinese were to be moved into Tibet to work on copper

mines and that the Beijing authorities planned to build several

mining towns to house about 100,000 migrant workers.

(Source: South China Morning Post, Hong Kong, April 1996)