Chamdo
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- This article refers to the town of Chamdo. For other uses, see Qamdo.
Chamdo (
Tibetan: ཆབ་མདོ་;
Wylie: chab-mdo also written
Qamdo) is a town in the eastern
Tibetan Autonomous Region, located about 480km from
Lhasa.[
link] The occupation of Chamdo by the military of the
People's Republic of China on
October 19,
1950 served as an important precursor to the eventual defeat of the Lhasa government. Chamdo's governor at the time of the occupation was Ngabo Ngawang Jigme, who later became an official in the government of the People's Republic of China.
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