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freeing tibet 50 years of struggle resilience and hope
in march of 1959 a 23 year old tibetan youth named tenzin gyatso burst onto the world stage . fleeing his native country to govern in exile from india the dalai lama would go on to become one of the great leaders of our time . then in march 2008 the diplomat icon and winner of the 1989 nobel peace prize was blamed for inciting violence in tibets traditional capital of lhasa . from the national uprising in 1959 which cost more than 85000 tibetans their lives to the rise of the tibetan freedom fighters ; the aftereffects of nixons historic visit to china and preparations for the dalai lamas successor this seminal history offers an insiders view of the 50 year struggle for autonomy . based on interviews with cia and political insiders this epic story gives readers a new understanding of a conflict that continues to fascinate the world .