On Nightlife with Indira Naidoo for ABC News
As the concept of the nation-state emerged in the early 20th century, Tibet’s leader, the Dalai Lama proclaimed in 1913 that his country was, and had been an independent country for well over 1000 years.
Today China claims Tibet, and Tibetans argue that their language, culture and identity is being destroyed.
Indira Naidoo was joined by Ruth Gamble, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and History at the Centre for the Study of the Inland (Asia) at Latrobe University, and Chung Tsering, a Tibetan language teacher at the Australian National University. author of a number of history books on modern Tibet, and former political prisoner in Tibet, to talk about what this declaration meant in 1913.
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