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Article: India's nasty neighborhood The view from New Delhi
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Stanley A. Weiss The New York Times Media Group
International Herald Tribune
04-23-2008
India's nasty neighborhood The view from New Delhi
Byline: Stanley A. Weiss The New York Times Media Group
Edition: 3
Section: OPINION
NEW DELHI --
It's tempting to dismiss as excessive the Indian government's efforts to protect the Olympic torch run last week from Tibetans protesting the Chinese crack down in their homeland - sealing off much of the historic heart of this city, shrouding the relay in a veil of secrecy and surrounding the flame with 15,000 police and soldiers.
Likewise, it's easy to brand New Delhi's muted response to the repression as "overcautious," as did the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled ...