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Exile Tibetans sit inside booths to mark their choices on election papers in Dharmsala, India
ETHNIC Tibetans living in the Indian city of Dharmsala voted at the weekend to create a shortlist for president of the so-called Central Tibetan Administration (CTA), which styles itself a government in exile of the Chinese autonomous region.
Current CTA chief Lobsang Sangay said the vote “sends a clear message to Beijing that Tibet is under occupation.”
The exile administration was formed in 1959 after the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism the Dalai Lama fled China following the failure of a CIA-funded monastic revolt against the abolition of serfdom.
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