Former Tibetan Female PLA Soldiers Mark Peaceful LiberationA group of 22 former Tibetan female soldiers of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) gathered Thursday in Lhasa to mark the 50th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet.The hoary-haired former soldiers were excited to greet each other recalling the old times when they lived and fought together. Some of them were daughters of serfs and lived poor and miserable lives before the peaceful liberation of Tibet. Now women of all ethnic groups in Tibet enjoy the same status as men in social, political and economic affairs. Tibet now has about 24,000 woman cadres, accounting for one-third of the total number of cadres in the southwest China autonomous region. |
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