Haas A man prays below a portrait of the Dalai Lama at Kirti Monastery in Aba, a Tibetan area of China's Sichuan province, on December 9, 2015. - AFP/File / Benjamin
Beijing (AFP) - A Chinese province with a large Tibetan population has ordered shopkeepers to hand in portraits of the Dalai Lama, state-run media said Wednesday, quoting Beijing experts likening the Nobel laureate to executed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Sichuan in the southwest, which includes several ethnically Tibetan areas, set up a "law enforcement squad" of cultural bureau personnel, police and other officials to enforce the drive, reported the Global Times, which is close to the ruling Communist party.
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