Members of Volunteer Freedom Fighters Force in Lhuntse Dzong near the Indian border (NEFA)
by Claude Arpi By the end of March 1959, Zhou Enlai on behalf of the State Council (Cabinet of Ministers) dissolved the Dalai Lama’s government: “The Tibet Local Government is dissolved and the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region shall exercise the functions and powers of the Tibet Local Government. During the time that the Dalai Lama, Chairman of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region, is under duress by the rebels, Panchen [Lama], Vice-Chairman of the Preparatory Committee will act as Chairman.” The chief Tibetan collaborator Ngabo Ngawang Jigme was nominated as a member of the Standing Committee and Secretary General of the Preparatory Committee. At the same time ‘eighteen traitorous elements’, meaning the Dalai Lama’s senior officials were “...relieved of their posts as members of the Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region and of all their other posts and are to be punished individually under the law.” They were replaced by Chinese Party members and a few Tibetan puppets. The destiny of Tibet was thereafter in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party; India had a new neighbor.
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The days of preaching and peace ended long back, the might of military has taken over the world even before the Great Dalai Lama was born or even Mahatma Gandhi or even Lord Buddha.
The main land China rulers expanded their national borders by crossing in to Tibet and even India. India was not their target, it was to warn India – not to involve in the Tibetan matters, the war of 1962 took place.
So since those days we are on our tows watching the Indo-China borders and noting beyond.
In this context we could have also become strong in military levels and could have got a permanent membership in UNO, so that we could have rightfully fought for all our Tibetan friends.
Alas we are still fighting within to survive our selves.
regards
MOHAN JANGA
Beautiful pictures India will never let down the Tibetans they will get their country back and Indians will be instrumental in doing so