China in Tibet: A Sad Chapter of Human History
China is killing Tibet.
Tibet has a long circuitous history, but its most harrowing chapter is recent. On October 7, 1950, under the direction of Chairman Mao Zedong, 30,000 experienced communist Chinese troops attacked Tibet under the guise of “Liberation.” The Tibetan Army - 4,000 poorly equipped, poorly trained troops - had little hope of defending a country the size of Western Europe. This Chinese “Liberation,” and the ensuing social madness known as the Cultural Revolution, led to the death of 1.2 million Tibetans, the destruction of 6,254 Buddhist monasteries and nunneries, 100,000 Tibetans in Chinese labor camps, and the flight of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to India. The Tibetan Buddhist way of life was outlawed, monks and nuns were persecuted, and the compassionate Buddhist mantra of “Om Mani Padme Hum” (translation: Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus) was replaced by the phrase “Long Live Chairman Mao.” In 30 years, Tibet became a land of desolation and destruction.
The destruction continues to this day. Instead of artillery and bombs, China’s current weapon of choice is immigration. China has encouraged hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese to immigrate to Tibet, through various incentives, tax breaks, and a relaxation of the fabled one-child policy. What started as a slow trickle has turned into a torrent, and the Tibetan culture is disappearing fast. It is cultural genocide.
Evidence of this is everywhere. Chinese military patrol the holy pilgrimage circuits. Closed circuit cameras monitor the monks at monasteries. The most important holy Buddhist sites are now fronted by expansive Chinese squares (modeled after Tiannemen), and large Chinese compounds front the streets in all Tibetan cities. In Lhasa, the original Tibetan area of town has been reduced to a small sector, flanked on all sides by sprawling Chinese strip malls.
It is only a matter of time until Tibetan culture disappears entirely, swallowed by the red giant that is communist China.
Check out the China-Tibet Photo Gallery for a few examples.
Tibet has a long circuitous history, but its most harrowing chapter is recent. On October 7, 1950, under the direction of Chairman Mao Zedong, 30,000 experienced communist Chinese troops attacked Tibet under the guise of “Liberation.” The Tibetan Army - 4,000 poorly equipped, poorly trained troops - had little hope of defending a country the size of Western Europe. This Chinese “Liberation,” and the ensuing social madness known as the Cultural Revolution, led to the death of 1.2 million Tibetans, the destruction of 6,254 Buddhist monasteries and nunneries, 100,000 Tibetans in Chinese labor camps, and the flight of Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to India. The Tibetan Buddhist way of life was outlawed, monks and nuns were persecuted, and the compassionate Buddhist mantra of “Om Mani Padme Hum” (translation: Hail to the Jewel in the Lotus) was replaced by the phrase “Long Live Chairman Mao.” In 30 years, Tibet became a land of desolation and destruction.
The destruction continues to this day. Instead of artillery and bombs, China’s current weapon of choice is immigration. China has encouraged hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese to immigrate to Tibet, through various incentives, tax breaks, and a relaxation of the fabled one-child policy. What started as a slow trickle has turned into a torrent, and the Tibetan culture is disappearing fast. It is cultural genocide.
Evidence of this is everywhere. Chinese military patrol the holy pilgrimage circuits. Closed circuit cameras monitor the monks at monasteries. The most important holy Buddhist sites are now fronted by expansive Chinese squares (modeled after Tiannemen), and large Chinese compounds front the streets in all Tibetan cities. In Lhasa, the original Tibetan area of town has been reduced to a small sector, flanked on all sides by sprawling Chinese strip malls.
It is only a matter of time until Tibetan culture disappears entirely, swallowed by the red giant that is communist China.
Check out the China-Tibet Photo Gallery for a few examples.
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