On March 16th, 2008, several hundred Tibetan students at the at the Northwest Nationalities University held a protest march on the university campus. The students distributed leaflets and carried banners that read “The Tibetan People Stay Together Through Happy and Sorrowful Times” and “Democracy and Human Lives are Precious”. The students also staged a sit-in, 24 hour hunger strike, and candlelight vigil on campus in Lanzhou, Gansu Province, China. (Ch: 西北民族大学).