Uprising on March 10, 1959
by Claude Arpi On September 9, 1951, several thousand Communist troops entered the Tibetan capital under the command of General Wang Qimei. Soon 20,000 troops began to occupy the most strategic points on the Tibetan Plateau. A year later, the first surveys to build a new road on the Aksai Chin were conducted; Xinjiang and Tibet needed to be connected. The first years following the ‘liberation’, the Dalai Lama tried his best to ‘cohabit’ with the Chinese, but the situation rapidly worsened. His presence in Tibet restrained the Communist leaders to a certain extent, at least militarily. It is only after his departure that the aggressiveness towards India took new heights. During this period, for the first time in Tibet’s 2000-year history, the local population experienced famine. Tibet was not able to feed its own people and the Communist troops in addition.
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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