Serfs Emancipation Day
Serf Liberation day (simplified Chinese: 西藏百万农奴解放纪念日; traditional Chinese: 西藏百萬農奴解放紀念日; pinyin: Bàiwàn Nóngnú Jiěfàng Jìnìan Rì), on March 28, is an annual holiday in the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, which celebrates the emancipation of serfs in Tibet. The holiday was adopted by the Tibetan legislature on January 19, 2009, and was promulgated that same year. In modern Tibetan history, March 28, 1959, was the day that the Tibetan government was declared illegal by China, which according to official Chinese history, liberated Tibetans from feudalism and theocracy. The head of that former government, the 14th Dalai Lama, calls the holiday a diversion from current problems in Tibet.
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