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Re:The Xinjiang Procedure by cperciva on Saturday December 24, 2011 @09:41AM (#3388938)
Trying to improve someone's standard of living by force is almost inevitably doomed to fail.

Canada tried that with its native population in the 20th century -- take children away from their backwards and uncivilized parents and raise them instead in residential schools -- and it was an utter disaster.

Re:The Xinjiang Procedure by drx on Saturday December 24, 2011 @10:53AM (#3389064)
Re:The Xinjiang Procedure by est on Saturday December 24, 2011 @11:44AM (#3389141)
Do you know anything about Tibet? Or dGe Lugs Pa? Or anything at all?

Old Tibetan system is exactly how force kids turning into monks and abey the teachings of Dalai Lama (note: not only the 14th).

What the Communist did wrong in Tibet, is not about exile Dalai Lama, but replacing the old ruling ranks without providing more options. So if anything thing went wrong, blame the Communists.