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Slideshow: Vigils For Freedom In Tibet

By Aksel Lydersen , India
Date Posted: 03/18/08 Reader Rating: rating


Vigils were held all across the world to bring attention to the ongoing plight of the Tibetan people, in their occupied homeland. These photos were taken by Aksel Lydersen who attended these protests and is originally posted on the Facebook album "Tibetan freedom protests." Go to Tibetan Center For Human Rights And Democracy for photographic evidence of the bloody crackdown on peaceful protesting Tibetan at Ngaba County, Sichuan Province, on 16 March 2008. Warning: The link takes you to a site containing very graphic photos of gunshot wounds and other bodily injures.
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