Philadelphia Inquirer reporter JEFFREY FLEISHMAN. He recently traveled across the Himalayan Mountains with a group of Buddhist monks and nuns, who were fleeing from persecution by the Communist Chinese government in Tibet. Some of them had been imprisoned and tortured by the Chinese. If caught, they would be sent back to prison and tortured. During their 14-day trek they experienced frost-bite, snow blindness, oxygen-then air, pain, and hunger. FLEISHMAN's story appeared in the Inquirer Magazine section, December 15, 1996.
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