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Tibetan Buddhist monks carry flags and a portrait of
The Dalai Lama as they march in Dharamsala on
Monday.

BBC News

More than 100 Tibetan exiles have begun a march from India to Tibet to protest against Chinese rule in the region.

The marchers left Dharamsala on the 49th anniversary of the Dalai Lama's escape from Tibet after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.

The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, has called for greater pressure on China over its human rights record. In Nepal, at 1,000 Tibetan exiles have clashed with police in Kathmandu while trying to march to the Chinese embassy. Tibet activists are hoping to use China's hosting of the Olympics to publicise their cause.

Before the marchers in India set off, the Dalai Lama said he approved of China hosting the games because it provided the world with a chance to pressurise the Beijing government to uphold the Olympic ideals of freedom of speech and equality.