http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6074301.eceFields support one crop a year and farmers are refusing to plant it
Tibetan discontent at Chinese rule has taken a new twist, with farmers refusing to till their fields in a show of passive resistance against Beijing.
So anxious are officials at the latest action that they have sent in troops from the People's Liberation Army to work with farmers - or in their place if need be - to carry out spring planting in mountainous regions able to support only one crop a year.
Local sources said that many farmers in areas of Sichuan province with large ethnic Tibetan populations have decided to down tools and leave their barley fields fallow this year.
“The farmers know that they will be the ones to suffer if they do this,” one source told The Times. “But this is a way for them to show their unhappiness.”
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Fearful of losing control, the paramilitary People's Armed Police on Sunday paraded detainees in seven trucks around the streets of Ganze. Each suspect was held by two police, who forced them to bow their heads. A notice was hung around the neck of each one, although a Tibetan source said that he could not read them because he was unfamiliar with Chinese characters.
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the leaders of China are not wise old men but 9 year old boys.