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BBC visits heart of Tibetan resistance as showdown looms between Dalai Lama and China



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We are being followed by eight unidentified men. Even saying a few words to us in public could get him in trouble.

But he appears willing to take the chance. "Things here are not good for us," he says quietly.

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