India Builds City For Tibetan Refugees On a former U.S. airstrip - built to supply Free China during the war - India erects a city of thatched-roofed, bamboo huts to house the more than 12,000 Tibetans who have fled the terrors of red Chinese repression. People get off truck, carry belongings, interact with men in uniform amid huts. One man gets a listen to his heart through a stethoscope.