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300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent the Chinese army from stopping it

65
years ago

10 March 1959,

300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama palace to prevent their arrest by the Chinese army. The Chinese Government invited Lama to a dance, but it did not appear as a trap. His neighbours protected him on the outskirts of the Norbulingka Palace.

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