Tibetan revolt crushed, Dalai Lama flees, 1959

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• Tragedy and Hope pp. 970-972 · open book

  This pressure began at once, and reached an acute stage in March 1959, when the Chinese authorities sought to arrest the Dalai Lama, head of the theocratic Tibetan government. The anti-Chinese revolt that resulted was crushed in two weeks, and the Dalai Lama fled to India.

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