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Tibetan Buddhism

The Battle of Lhasa, 1959: Where It All Began

The Battle of Lhasa, 1959: Where It All Began

In March 1959, China suppressed a protest in Lhasa by slaughtering thousands of civilians and, in breach of the agreements it had subscribed in 1951, dissolving the Tibetan government and converting Tibet into a Chinese province. It was the beginning of a policy where CCP decided to ignore international law and answer the world’s protests mostly by fabricating fake news.