06/10/11

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More than 300 Tibetan monks have disappeared after being rounded up by Chinese security forces at a monastery for "re-education."

China on Thursday defended its treatment of Tibetan monks it says are undergoing "re-education", responding to a U.N. inquiry about what exiled Tibetans have called the forced disappearance of hundreds of monks. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said the monks had not been detained illegally, and urged U.N. human rights investigators to act without prejudice.

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