Word: tibet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little news trickles out of the mountain-ringed jail that the Red Chinese have made of Tibet, and no reporters are allowed in. Eleven months ago, a nine-man committee of the International Commission of Jurists began sifting through Red Chinese documents and broadcasts, intelligence reports and refugee interrogations in an effort to separate fact from rumor, discover what was really going on. Last week their report was in. The committee could not be charged with prejudice: eight of its nine members were from Asian or African countries of neutralist leanings...
...jurists coldly dismissed the Reds' claim that they had "liberated" the Tibetan people from oppressive overlords. Although Tibet was a feudal society before the Red Chinese came, the jurists found that its people were thoroughly happy. Never had there been an instance of Tibetan popular uprising. It was also untrue that China had improved the condition of the Tibetan masses, said the investigators. The considerable economic and industrial development that has taken place was all "directly related" to the needs of the half-million Chinese settled in Tibet. The poor Tibetans had only grown poorer...
After that, the Chinese were forced to deploy their own men. In May, near Shekar Dzong in southern Tibet, Chinese forces engaged 6,000 guerrillas in battle. Though the guerrillas lost 800 casualties, it took 15 heavy trucks to cart away the Chinese dead-and the Chinese wounded overflowed hospitals all the way back to the town of Shigatse, 120 miles to the northeast...
Recent arrivals from Tibet report that Red China has now dropped even the pretense that Communist rule in Tibet has the approval of the Panchen Lama. First employed by the Chinese as a puppet against his traditional rival, the Dalai Lama, the Panchen Lama is now a prisoner in Suthilinga palace in Lhasa, suspected of organizing the underground. Meanwhile, Tibetans estimate that the Chinese have carried off $420 million worth of monastery valuables, turning many a wrecked temple into a dance hall or military head quarters...
...their massive attempt to convert Tibet into a Chinese colony, the Communists have impressed 35,000 Tibetans, including many monks, to work as slave laborers building a new 1,500-mile railroad from China's Tsinghai province to Lhasa. Even with the present poor communications, Chinese settlers are already being moved in to take over Tibetan lands, and Tibetans are shipped away to points unknown to change the racial complexion of the people. But other thousands have fled into the mountains, where Chinese planes last week were powerless to strafe them out. Said one Tibetan traveler: "The Chinese will...