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Horse Racing Festival

August 18, 2016;

A traditional annual Tibetan horse racing festival has gone ahead, with official approval but under armed guard. The tenth Machu Grassland Festival and Gesar Horse Race, named after a legendary warrior king and Tibetan national hero, was held from August 13 – 17 in the Kanlho Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture’s Machu county. Announcements were made forbidding protests, with warnings of “serious consequences” for transgressors.

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