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"Murder investigation is an art form. The essential cause of violent crime is class struggle."

"A murder investigation is pointless unless it can become a parable for the people."

The ultimate weapon wielded by Beijing had always been population...Beijing was turning the native population of Tibet into a minority in their own lands...Endless truck convoys over thirty years had turned Lhasa into a Han Chinese city.
the roads built for such convoys were called avichi trails at the 404th [construction brigade], for the eighth level of hell, the hell reserved for those who would destroy Buddhism.