Word: tapontsang
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...Adhe Tapontsang spoke yesterday evening about being tortured, raped and starved, and of watching the Chinese kill her friends and family during her 27 years in a Chinese prison as China consolidated its control over her Tibetan homeland...
...Tapontsang is a Tibetan woman who was imprisoned for resisting the Chinese occupation of Tibet. Her speech, translated by Divinity School students Ngawang Jorden, was made in pointed opposition to the upcoming visit to Harvard by Jiang Zemin, China's president...
China invaded Tibet in 1950. For the next six years, Tapontsang and her husband worked with other Tibetans to resist the Chinese. In 1956, Tapontsang said, she believes her husband was poisoned. Until her arrest in 1958, Tapontsang orga...
...children when I was arrested." Tapontsang said. "My daughter was a year old. My son was four, and when he tried to hold onto me, the Chinese kicked...