DHARAMSHALA: Hundreds of Tibetan women in exile protestedagainst China and raised slogans for the freedom of Tibet while commemorating the 63rd anniversary of Tibetannational WomenUprising Day in the hill town of Dharamshala on Saturday.

"We are remembering the year 1959 when the Tibetan women staged a protestin Tibet. We want freedom for Tibetans living in Tibet," said Lhamo, anactivist involved with Tibetan Women's Association (TWA), which heldthe protest.

Tenzin Passang, an activist from Students for a Free Tibet said, "We demand from the worldand the international community that they see the situation in Tibet and makeChina accountable for gross human rights violations in Tibet."

The Tibetan Uprising in 1959 began as a spontaneous act of peaceful protestdemonstrations against the Chinese in capital Lhasa, which later turnedviolent, in which thousands of Tibetans were killed by the marauding soldiersof the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

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