Tibetan Uprising Day – March 10th

• Hundreds of Tibetans carrying flags of Tibet took out a march here to mark the 64th anniversary of their Uprising Day.
• It was the first big protest by Tibetans in Dharamsala, the headquarters of Tibetan government-in-exile.

BRIEF HISTORY

• The communist government of China in 1949 launched an armed invasion, during which it took the lives of hundreds of thousands of Tibetan people.
• The Tibetan people felt compelled to stage an uprising in Tibet’s capital Lhasa on March 10 in 1959 as a result of a rising oppression under the domination of China which remains an indelible mark in the history of the Tibetan nation.