Dalai Lama flees Tibet and is forced into exile in India

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Category

War

Place

China

Date

1959

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"The Dalai Lama was forced to flee, with some 100,000 countrymen. He was granted asylum in India and set up his government in exile at Dharmsala, in the Indian Himalayas." [Furtado: 1001 Days]

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