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On the recordJune 22, 2022
Increasingly, this oppression threatens the religious, cultural, linguistic, and historical identity of the Tibetan people.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley warns about the threat to Tibetan identity due to oppression.

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