Last Updated on April 26, 2024 by pg@petergamma.org
Loten Dahortsang explains at the beginning of this video on the Swiss health television YouTube channel:
«In 1959 China has occupied Tibet. It is crazy that you are punished with stealing a small thing and you are sent to prison for it, but when someone steals a whole country … the whole world seems somehow to have accepted this.»
- The Chinese government of the People’s Republic of China government closed the monasteries in Tibet, and imposed Chinese law and custom in the region.
- 1.2 million Tibetans where killed.
All exept for 13 of the country’s 6,254 monasteries where destroyed.
- Today the practice of religion continues to be severely limited in Tibet.
- China has illegally occupied Tibet for over 60 years.
- It has refused to negotiate with Tibetan leaders since 2010.
Tibetan Buddhism is seen as a threat to the occupying Chinese state and is tightly regulated
The Dalai Lama the 14. who lives in exile in India talks in the following video about the invasion of China into Tibet: