Modern Tibetan Studies Director Robert Barnett (Retired January 2018) talked with NBC News on May 24, 2016 about China’s significant investments in majority Tibetan Ganzi Prefecture. Professor Barnett discussed the decline of self-immolations in the region. “It seems that the use of collective punishment in some key areas —penalizing families, friends, communities and monasteries for a single incident — contributed to the decline,” he noted.
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