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Tibetan protesters, Chinese forces clash

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  January 24, 2012

Security forces opened fire on Tibetan protesters in western China on Monday, injuring at least 32 people and killing at least one of them in the largest violent confrontation in ethnic Tibetan areas of China since 2008, two Tibetan rights groups and the Tibetan exile government said. The incident was the second reported shooting of Tibetan protesters in the past week and a half.

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