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14th Dalai Lama Flees Lhasa on March 17, 1959

On March 17, 1959, amidst fear, confusion, and violence, the 14th Dalai Lama secretly fled Lhasa, the sacred capital of Tibet. His decision followed days of suffocating tension that had escalated since March 10.

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