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GENOCIDE IN TIBET
A REPORT BY JONATHAN KING, ANMOL SINGH,
      BEN JACKSON, KARANVIR SINGH
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
GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION
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
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).
DESTRUCTION OF THE JOKHANG
          TEMPLE
 THIS IS ONLY ONE OF THE 6,000 DESECRATED
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
TIBETAN RESISTANCE
 THE GENOCIDE NEVER STOPPED

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Tibetan Genocide

  • 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
  • 8. TIBETAN RESISTANCE THE GENOCIDE NEVER STOPPED

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