March 28

The day of March 28 was set up as the Serf Liberation Day, passed by 382 Tibetan People’s Congress representatives on the second Plenary of the Ninth Session of the Tibetan Regional People’s Congress on January 19th, 2009.

On March 28, 1959, Zhou Enlai, Premier of the State Council of People’s Republic of China, issued the Decree of State Council ordering to dissolve the old Tibetan regional government, Kashag. Millions of serfs in Tibet gained personal freedom and the land.