Person

14th Dalai Lama

Tibetan religious leader; his office says he was forced into exile in 1959.

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Lhasa in March 1959 1959 left Tibet in 1959; his office says he was forced into exile, the white paper says he fled abroad According to 14th Dalai Lama Self-published 1

Lhasa in March 1959 says he was forced into exile; the Chinese government says he fled abroad According to 14th Dalai Lama Primary record 1 2

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1959 14th Dalai Lama intervened in Lhasa in March 1959 According to 14th Dalai Lama

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Brief Biography of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Office of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Self-published
Finally, in 1959, following the brutal suppression of the Tibetan national uprising in Lhasa by Chinese troops, His Holiness was forced to escape into exile.
Tibet Since 1951: Liberation, Development and Prosperity (white paper), State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China, 21 May 2021. Primary record
Since the 14th Dalai Lama fled abroad in 1959, the central government has exercised great restraint and done its best to provide solutions

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