A young monk peers into the courtyard of the Tashiling Tibetan Refugee Camp, near Pokhara, Nepal.
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At the nearby Tashi Palkhel Tibetan Refugee Camp, the all-Tibetan school has seen a steep drop in students. Teachers say fewer marriages has led to fewer births, and many adults areleaving Nepal altogether. “Maybe we have to close the kindergarten because there just are not enough students,” one teacher says.
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SOS Hermann Gmeiner School in Pokhara, Nepal. As the number of Tibetan births in Nepal decline, schools like this one west of Kathmandu are recruiting more non-Tibetan students to fill their ranks.
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School’s out. Heading home after a day of study at the Tashiling Tibetan Refugee Camp near Pokhara, Nepal.
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With fewer children being born and many Tibetan families packing their bags and heading west, the Tashi Palkhel Tibetan Refugee Camp has an empty feel.
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Tibetan refugees in Nepal point to a growing list of reasons why they are trying to leave this Himalayan refuge. At the top of the list is political pressure from China, which has pushed the Nepalese government to restrict the political freedoms of undocumented Tibetans. On March 10, 2010, Nepalese riot police patrolled the back streets near Kathmandu’s revered Boudhanath Stupa.
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Despite an official ban on politically motivated protests, Tibetans gather near Kathmandu’s revered Boudhanath Stupa on March 10, 2010 to vocalize their condemnation of China’s policies inside Tibet. Nepealese police, defending their government’s and vow to crush anti-China activities on their soil, take action.
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Despite the heavy police presence near Kathmandu’s revered Boudhanath Stupa, Tibetan activists defy a Nepalese ban on protests on March 10, 2010, to vocalize their condemnation of China’s treatment of their brethren to the north.
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Undaunted, Tibetan activists like this one say they will continue to protest China’s Tibet policies, whether they do so as undocumented exiles in Nepal, or political refugees in the West.
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