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Horse Race Festival

August 16, 2019;

The Tibetan traditional horse race festival began this week in Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Machu county, with participants from across the traditional Tibetan provinces of Kham and Amdo. Radio Free Asia reports that the over 30,000 people attending were faced with a huge presence of plain clothed Chinese police officers monitoring the crowd.Thousands of small tents are rented on the festival ground, serving as restaurants and shops.

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