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World Service,31 Mar 2010,9 mins

Dalai Lama leaves Tibet

Witness History

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When the Dalai Lama fled Chinese troops in Tibet in 1959, his mother, sister and younger brother went too. Witness hears his brother's memories of that trek through the Himalayas.

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