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| | Boy picked by Dalai Lama a virtual non-person in Tibet - www.phayul.com |
 | | Still only a teenager, Gedhun has been caught up in a struggle over the future of Tibet, waged between the Dalai Lama, who has lived abroad since 1959, and China, which has ruled the region unchallenged in the same period. |
 | | Ten years have passed, and Gedhun has still not reemerged because, according to the official Chinese version, he and his family "do not wish to be disturbed" by foreign media. |
 | | During Gedhun's decade in hiding, Beijing has been touting its own rival candidate for the 11th Panchen Lama, a boy called Gyaincain Norbu, in a campaign that seems to have left no part of Tibet unaffected. |
| www.phayul.com /news/article.aspx?id=10398&t=1&c=1 (1066 words) |
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