darkness and amidst mounting

On the night of March 17, 1959, under the cover of darkness and amidst mounting tension, the 14th Dalai Lama, then just 23 years old, fled his sacred home in Lhasa. Disguised as a common soldier, he embarked on a perilous two-week journey through the Himalayas to escape advancing Chinese forces determined to crush the Tibetan uprising. His dramatic exile to India marked not just the flight of a spiritual leader but the beginning of decades-long exposure of China’s brutal oppression in Tibet, a chapter that continues to unfold today. The Dalai Lama’s escape was a direct response to China’s increasingly aggressive presence in Lhasa, which culminated in the bloody crackdown of the 1959 Tibetan สล็อต