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Serfs and slaves accounted for 95 percent of the Tibetan population (peasants 60%, herdsmen 20%, and lower-class monks 15%). They were owned by serf-owners, just like the means of production. They had no political rights or personal freedom.

THE process of globalisation, according to Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize winning economist, is a flow of ideas. He called upon the Third World economies to take advantage of globalisation just as the western countries did at the end of the first millennium. This has fuelled outstanding progress in the western countries in the scientific, technological and economic fields. However, Sen has not said how this so-called progress was used to colonise large parts of Asia and Africa, to exploit their natural resources and markets only to boost the living standards of the people in the Europe and American continents.

THE international community is, today, witnessing an interesting devolution of power-hitherto unfamiliar to mankind -- with the vital parts of the states' authority shifting to agencies, organisations like business cartels, international organisations (IO), non-government organisations (NGO), and a myriad other citizens' groups that have emerged as a "new class" in international relations shaping a spanking new global system.