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The Times - Crumpled passport ‘proves’ Tibet independence claim

Crumpled, faded and torn at the edges, the sheet of paper looks unremarkable at first sight – a typical government document from Asia in the early 1900s, perhaps.

Closer inspection suggests that it is something extraordinary: a Tibetan passport issued to the Dalai Lama’s finance minister and used in at least eight countries, including Britain, in 1948.

The document goes on public display for the first time this weekend at a conference in Delhi organised by radical Tibetan independence activists.

They say that it is the strongest evidence yet to support the Dalai Lama’s longstanding claim that Tibet was an independent nation before Chinese communist forces entered in 1950. China says that Tibet has been an integral part of its territory for centuries.

Imagine that, China lying.