Source: highpeakspureearth. According to different sources , it is estimated that up to , people died in prisons and labor camps between and What is more, the region accounts for the highest poverty rate in China. It is estimated that there up to twenty million Chinese citizens working in prison camps.
Hundreds of Tibetans have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule since , with more than dying from their injuries. The numbers are murky due to the absence of official records and the suppression of free press in communist China.
However, reliable records show that between and the following atrocities occurred:. One can only imagine what the actual numbers were for this period, and what the numbers were for the years since In Tibet today, there is no freedom of speech, religion, or press and arbitrary detainments continue.
The 14th Dalai Lama, who fled to India in , now lives among over , other Tibetan refugees and their government in exile. Forced abortion, sterilisation of Tibetan women, and the transfer of low-income Chinese citizens threaten the survival of Tibetan culture. In some Tibetan provinces, Chinese settlers outnumber Tibetans 7 to 1. The Chinese government has never made a formal apology for their atrocities in Tibet. Within China itself, massive human rights abuses continue. In the field of secularism there is no other country like India.
When I was in Tibet my thoughts were narrow. But when I moved out of my homeland and came to India, I developed a broader thought about Tibet as well as about the entire world. Tibet has always been a thorn in the side of Sino-Indian relations. Source: tibet. Former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru agreed to provide all assistance to the Tibetan refugees to settle in India until their eventual return. The Tibetan diaspora maintains a government in exile in Himachal Pradesh, which coordinates political activities for Tibetans in India.
In , the Government of Mysore Karnataka allotted nearly 3, acres of land for the first ever Tibetan exile settlement, Lugsung Samdupling. A few years later, many more settlements came into being in Karnataka, making it the state with the largest Tibetan refugee population. Other Indian states have also provided land for Tibetan refugees. The Government of India has built special schools for Tibetans that provide free education, health care, and scholarships. There are a few medical and civil engineering seats reserved for Tibetans.
The Khampa guerrillas, who led the Tibetan nationalist resistance, called themselves ten-sung, defenders of faith. And the main aim of the movement at its peak was the defense of Buddhism, personified by the Dalai Lama.
The first Chinese—a group of about ten—came to Sakya in about March, A funny incident took place on their arrival.
Some laborers carrying manure to the fields met ten strange-looking khaki-clad horsemen on the way. And that is exactly what the laborers did. The Chinese were visibly pleased, joining enthusiastically in the clapping.
Later on we would be told that this was a new way of welcoming and congratulating. The Chinese team explained their intrusion to the Sakya and local authorities by stating that the People's Liberation Army PLA and the Communist party of China CPC had marched a great distance, climbed high mountains, crossed big rivers, and braved the worst weather in the world—all to serve the Tibetan people, a long lost brother-member of the great Motherland, China.
The Chinese mission in Tibet was to usher in a new era of progress, with connotations of new miracles to a preindustrial people. As soon as the people of Tibet were able to rule by themselves, the Chinese comrades would return home—or so was defined for Tibetans the alien concept called autonomy. This assuring, disarming message was expected to filter down from the upper strata of the society to the masses. The initial Chinese policy wisely took into account the separate and independent Tibetan civilization that had developed through centuries.
The signing of the Seventeen-Point Agreement of between China and Tibet and the policy that followed it indicate the Chinese recognition of Tibet's cultural and political independence. The wall that separated the Chinese and Tibetans was as enormous as the Wall of China. When the first Chinese Communists arrived in Sakya there was the same kind of curiosity a native shows to the foreigner, the same kind of hostility, though more spiritual than physical, the invaded shows to the invader.
In fact, at that time we could have identified ourselves much more easily with a Ladakhi living as an Indian citizen than with a Chinese. Our sense of independence was based more on our life and culture than on law or history, canons by which non-Tibetans decide the fate of Tibet.
Even at the time of the Chinese ascendency in Tibet the Chinese power was limited to the presence of an amban imperial resident and his escort of one to two hundred soldiers in Lhasa. Such terms were imposed by European legalistic interpretations of and inferences from a non-European relationship between Confucian China and Buddhist Tibet. Tibet was not ripe for revolution in the sense China was.
The economic conditions of Tibetan peasants and herdsmen were far better than those of Chinese peasants; there had been no famine recorded in Tibetan history.
Between and Chinese soldiers passed through Sakya. When the Chinese opened their school in Sakya, they politely suggested that the small traditional ones be merged with the new ones. Along with thirteen other boys I was then learning the Tibetan language and laboriously practicing calligraphy.
My teacher advised my mother that I should join the Chinese school. Looking back now I recall that the vast majority of the eighty-two students in the Red School were the sons and daughters of aristocrats and officials. The Chinese Communists cultivated and pampered the lords and lamas of Tibet for almost a decade. Peking's strategy for the role of the traditional ruling class in Tibet was very important: They were to be the vanguard of peaceful revolution.
Their moral sanction and active cooperation would help the Chinese to achieve the top priority task of the People's Republic of China: unification. After Tibet, only Taiwan remained. The Chinese expected the traditional ruling class to help them to minimize the chances of anti-Chinese revolt before the Chinese could consolidate their power. The Tibetan rulers, with a few exceptions like Tibet's last prime minister, Lhukhangpa, willingly cooperated with the Chinese.
Names and titles might vanish, but in substance they would continue to enjoy the same privileges as before. It was not so much the egalitarian aspect of the future ideal society that excited the young. Nor did the Chinese emphasize it. What excited us were the miracles of the magic wheel. Forced abortion, sterilization of Tibetan women and the transfer of low income Chinese citizens threaten the survival of Tibet's unique culture.
In some Tibetan provinces, Chinese settlers outnumber Tibetans 7 to 1. Within China itself, massive human rights abuses continue.
It is estimated that there up to twenty million Chinese citizens working in prison camps. Most of the Tibetan plataeu lies above 14, feet.
Tibet is the source of five of Asia's greatest rivers, which over 2 billion people depend upon. Despite these facts and figures, the US government and US corporations continue to support China economically. This shows their blatant lack of respect for these critical issues of political and religious freedom and human rights. Yes, things are bad, but you may still ask, why Tibet? There are hundreds of other countries in which equal or worse environmental and human rights devistation has occured.
Why Tibet? Tibet can be used as the catalyst for change in human rights, womens rights, political, religious and cultural freedom across the globe.
Through a concerted effort, the citizens of Earth can stand up and say "NO! The struggles in Tibet are symbolic for every human rights struggle. Please, get involved. There is only a limited time left until there will longer be a Tibet to save. Tibet was one of the mightiest powers of Asia for the three centuries that followed, as a pillar inscription at the foot of the Potala Palace in Lhasa and Chinese Tang histories of the period confirm. The Tibetan Lama promised political loyalty and religious blessings and teachings in exchange for patronage and protection.
The religious relationship became so important that when, decades later, Kublai Khan conquered China and established the Yuan Dynasty , he invited the Sakya Lama to become the Imperial Preceptor and supreme pontiff of his empire. The relationship that developed and continued to exist into the 20th Century between the Mongols and Tibetans was a reflect of the close racial, cultural, and especially religious affinity between the two Central Asian peoples.
The Mongol Empire was a world empire and, whatever the relationship between its rulers and the Tibetans, the Mongols never integrated the administration of Tibet and China or appended Tibet to China in any manner. Tibet broke political ties with the Yuan emperor in , before China regained its independence from the Mongols. Not until the 18th Century did Tibet again come under a degree of foreign influence. Tibetan officials requested military assistance from India. The Dalai Lama returned to Lhasa on 17 August The U.
Khamba tribesmen rebelled against the Chinese government in eastern Tibet beginning in August The Dalai Lama departed from Lhasa on March 17, Tibetan rebels launched attacks against Chinese government officials and troops on March 19, , and Chinese troops launched a counter-offensive against the Tibetans on March 20, Chinese government troops captured Lhasa on March 25, , resulting in the deaths of some 2, Tibetan rebels.
The Chinese government dissolved the Tibetan government headed by the Dalai Lama on March 28, , and the Panchen Lama assumed control of the Tibetan government on April 5, The Dalai Lama and some 80 supporters fled into exile in India on March 31, Some 87, Tibetans and 2, Chinese government troops were killed, and some , Tibetans fled as refugees to India, Nepal, and Bhutan during the conflict. Some , Tibetans died during famines caused by economic reforms between and
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