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- ↑ DIIR, Offices of Tibet, Department of Information and International Relations
- ↑ Bureau du Tibet à Paris
- ↑ En bref, les droits de l'homme au Tibet Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine , Bureau du Tibet de l'ONU, mars 2002.
- ↑ Loa Iok-sin, Tibetans confirm WikiLeak, Taipei Times, 25 December 2010