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In 1959 the Chinese brutally and forcefully invaded neighboring, peaceful Tibet. His Holiness, The XIV Dalai Lama, Spiritual and Temporal leader of Tibet was forced to flee to exile in India. Since then a steady stream of Tibetans face the perilous, life-threatening journey across the high Himalayan Mountains separating Tibet from India. They are fleeing what human rights observers have documented in Tibet as imprisonment, severe torture, brutal forced labor, starvation, and enforced sterilization of Tibetan women.
In Tibet Monks and Nuns are forced to denounce His Holiness The Dalai Lama. Many Monks, Nuns, and lay people are imprisoned for their nonviolent, peaceful protests. There they suffer extreme forms of torture and hardship. 6,000 monasteries in Tibet have been destroyed. Tibet is recognized as one of the worst case of human rights violations in any occupied territory….
