Story of a serf-born Tibetan shows how Xizang experienced earth-shaking progress on democracy, human rights
March 28 marks the 64th anniversary of the democratic reform of the Xizang Autonomous Region in Southwest China. In March 1959, the central government led the people in Xizang to launch a democratic reform, abolishing Xizang’s feudal serfdom under a theocracy. Xizang was then able to establish a new social system that liberated the people and made them the masters of the nation and society. In 2009, the regional legislature announced March 28 as a day to commemorate the emancipation of about 1 million serfs. The democratic reform, which started in 1959, gave personal freedom, right to serfsâ...
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