Word: panchen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peking with full notebooks, the tunnel-visioned correspondents ticked off what they saw. Lhasa-where 15,000 died in the bloody fighting-was "quite normal." Everywhere, the people smiled on their oppressors-a piece of information the reporters picked up during lunch in Shigatse with Mao's puppet Panchen Lama. Then, suntanned and refreshed by their exercise, the correspondents trotted back to their cages...
...king accepts as likely reports that the Chinese Communists have arrested the Panchen Lama, who had been serving as their puppet ruler in Lhasa: "The Panchen Lama is, after all, a monk, and is now witnessing the Chinese atrocities and therefore might protest." This week the Dalai Lama sent an emissary to New Delhi urging U.N. help for Tibet: "The suffering of my people is beyond description." Nehru now plans to meet with the Dalai Lama this week, the first indication that Nehru is about to swerve from his policy of minimizing the tragedy of Tibet...
...voice of the quisling sounded last week over the roof of the world. In mountain-locked Lhasa, the tame Panchen Lama parroted the words of his Red Chinese masters, told Tibetans that their only choice was the "building up of a new and socialist Tibet" or preserving "the cruel, dark and backward serf system forever." The Chinese Reds, admitting that the rebellion still continued, ominously suggested that they might set up their notorious People's Courts to try recalcitrant landlords and monks. ("If those who are most hated by the people and whose lives are demanded by them admit...
Nehru suggested that Red China send its own puppet ruler of Tibet, the Panchen Lama, plus any interested Red Chinese emissaries, to visit the Dalai Lama and see for themselves that he was not being held "under duress" as the Red radio proclaimed. Nehru hoped that conditions would "some day" relax so that the God-King might go home to Tibet. His own contribution, whether intentionally or not, was to deaden the world's outrage, while the Red Chinese put down the rebellion...
Docile, and splendid in a silken robe, the captive Panchen Lama, 22, was trotted out to make the right noises for his Communist masters. "Tibet," he declared, "is always China's Tibet...