As the death toll from this weekend's landslides in the Tibetan-majority region of Gansu province climbs above 1,100, the world is once again turning its attention to the plight of China's most infamous minority.
But as rescue efforts continue in the "Shangri La" of Gansu, a slow-motion disaster of a more bureaucratic sort is unfolding in the nearby Tibetan refugee capital of Nepal. And unless this crisis is averted, the damage there could be more lasting than the slurry of mud and rock scouring China's northwest.
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