Sixty-Five Years in Exile: Tibet’s Unfinished Struggle Against Chinese Rule | World News
Tibet declared an independent nation in 1913, but China refused to recognize it and claimed that Tibet was part of China. In 1949, the Chinese Communist Party came to power and claimed Tibet as part of the People’s Republic of China. In 1950, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) marched to Tibet and occupied the country. They forced the Tibetan government to sign the 17 -point agreement that recognized Chinese sovereignty against Tibet while giving the autonomy on the Tibetans in their internal affairs.
However, the Chinese government did not implement the agreement, and instead of a process of oppression and cultural assimilation in Tibet. The 14th Dalai Lama, who was only 15 years old at the time, took the role of the president of the Tibetan government.
While China continued to show its effect on Tibetan, Dalai Lama was increasingly concerned about the loss of tibeth and the loss of cultural identity. Despite the tender age, Dalai Lama was negotiating with the Chinese government to create and try a peaceful solution, but the situation reached a breaking point.
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In the beginning of March 1959, thousands of Tibetans met at the Norbulingka and Potala Palace in Lhasa to protest the Chinese administration and prevent Chinese authorities from arrest Dalai Lama. Fearned by a plan for the Chinese to kidnap him, Dalai Lama consulted religious prophecies and finally decided to escape from Tibet to save his life.
On March 17, 1959, the Chinese fired two artillery shells towards the palace and hit the gardens and kidnapped the main palace narrowly. Dalai Lama made a hard decision to leave her homeland. At the death of the night, Dalai Lama, who wears a soldier’s uniform with a gun on his shoulder, left the palace. They walked for hours in the dark and snowy mountains, fled Chinese patrols and hid in the caves when necessary. They took refuge in monasteries, small villages where the locals provided shelter and protection. This was an important turning point in China’s occupation of Tibet.
Finally, after about two -week tiring travel, Dalai Lama and his party crossed his border to India at Khenzime Pass on March 31. The party took a few days to reach Tawang at Western Arunachal Pradesh.
Dalai Lama stayed for four days in Tawang, and the 6th Dalai Lama had the opportunity to visit Tawang Gompa and Urgenneling, where Tsangang Gyaltso had spent the first years of Gyaltso. Dalai Lama then went to Bombila, where he was officially accepted by the ambassador of the Indian government as a pleasant message from Nehru. After a few days of rest, the party went to the plains of India.
14. Dalai Lama officially canceled the seventeen point agreement with China in the beginning of March 1959, while fleeing Tibet for India. On 29 April 1959, the exile 14th Dalai Lama re -established Kasag, which was abolished one month ago by the government of the People’s Republic of China on 28 March 1959.
Later, the permanent chairman of the Tibetan Administration and exile had administrative functions for Tibetans. On February 11, 1991, Tibet became a founding member of the Nations and Peoples’ Organization (UNPO), which was not represented at a ceremony held at the Peace Palace in the Hague, the Netherlands. After Dalai Lama no longer decided to take an administrative authority, the regulation of the exile Tibetans in May 2011 was updated to repel all articles on their political duties.
