India stops foreign journalists from covering Dalai Lama's visit to disputed area with China

Nov 5th, 2009 - StarTribune

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NEW DELHI - India effectively barred foreign journalists Thursday from covering a rare visit by the Dalai Lama to a Buddhist monastery close to Tibet in an apparent effort to ease Chinese anger by reducing news coverage of the trip.

The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader's planned visit Sunday to the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh — the heart of a long-running border dispute between China and India — has inflamed already heightened tensions between the Asian powers.

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