Nepal: Front Line of Exile

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Broadcast on the Tibet Connection, April 2011

Intro and Outro

The roughly 20-thousand Tibetans living in Nepal have almost no rights in that country, and even fewer opportunities. Yet a few young Tibetans are trying to change their circumstances. Rebecca Novick (NOH-vik) reports.