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India Crushes Tibetan March

Police bust exiles trying to march back home

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 13, 2008 6:25 AM CDT

(Newser) – Indian police stopped a group of Tibetan exiles marching back to their homeland after just 30 miles, reports the BBC. The activists set off Monday from Dharamsala, the seat of the exiled Tibetan government, heading for the Chinese border on the 49th anniversary of a... Read full story »

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