Around 3,000 Tibetans around Australia are celebrating the 87th birthday of Tibet's former political leader, the Dalai Lama.
Shortly after she arrived in India, she was given the opportunity to meet the Dalai Lama, who recognised the state of her health and made sure she got medical treatment.
Nearly 20 years later, she still lives in Sydney's Northern Beaches, with her husband and two daughters. Zoe Bedford — the executive director of the Australia Tibet Council — said around half of Australia's Tibetan refugees were political prisoners. The New South Wales president of the Tibetan Community of Australia — which is based in Dee Why — is Migmar Tsering.That saw him jailed for four years and six months in the Chinese-controlled Tibetan capital of Lhasa where, he said, he joined 2,000 other political prisoners, mostly monks and nuns.
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