1. GENOCIDE IN TIBET
A REPORT BY JONATHAN KING, ANMOL SINGH,
BEN JACKSON, KARANVIR SINGH
2. GENERAL HISTORY
Throughout history, Chinese and Tibetan dynasties
have conflicted
Two areas never amalgamated
Distinctly different cultures: language, religion, ect.
Before take-over by the People’s Republic
Theocratic government: led by the Dalai Lama
Prosperous nation with own army, National
Assembly, currency, and postal system
4. GENERAL HISTORY
1949- Invaded by the Chinese government
Began with military take-over, agreement for Tibet’s
“liberation”
Up to 1959, greater influx of troops and Chinese
1959-1966: violently suppressing resistance, large
arrests, labor camps, annexation of Tibet
1966-1976: destruction of remaining religious
monuments and culture
5. GENERAL HISTORY
After a period of heavy colonizing of Tibet by the
Chinese, the country was then placed under Martial
Law until 1993
At one point, Chen Kuei Yuan, a Chinese
administrator in power of Tibet, attempted an "all-out
effort to eradicate Buddhism from the face of the
earth so that no memory will be left in the minds of
coming generations" Taken from Tibet and China in the Twenty-First Century
by John Heath (151).
6. DESTRUCTION OF THE JOKHANG
TEMPLE
THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE 6,000 DESECRATED
7. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION
After Chinese
occupation, total of
1,000,000 or greater
Tibetans tortured,
starved, and killed
In just one year
(1959-1960) in the
major city of Lhasa,
87,000 deaths were
recorded Photo: The New York Times