Acknowledgments

This report was edited by Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch; Sophie Richardson, China director; Nicholas Bequelin, senior researcher; Mickey Spiegel, senior advisor; Danielle Haas, senior editor; and Joseph Saunders, deputy program director. Dinah Pokempner provided legal review.

Human Rights Watch wishes to express its thanks to several external reviewers who commented on earlier versions of this report: Matthew Akester; Robert Barnett, Director, Modern Tibet Studies Program, Columbia University; Emily T. Yeh, Associate Professor of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder; and others who have chosen to remain anonymous.

Julia Bleckner, associate for the Asia division, provided administrative and technical assistance. Production assistance was provided by Grace Choi, publications director; Kathy Mills, publication specialist; Josh Lyons, satellite imagery analyst; and Sakae Ishikawa, senior video editor.

Human Rights Watch is deeply grateful to the Tibetan men and women whom we interviewed for this report and who assisted us in our investigations. For security reasons, none can be named here.