31/01/2025
Have you heard what happened in Tibet in the 1980s?
The Tibet Uprising saw waves of protests against Chinese rule, peaking in 1987–1989 with violent crackdowns in Lhasa. Martial law was declared in 1989, cementing Beijing’s control but fueling global outrage and Tibetan resistance.
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“Perhaps the riots that had taken place in Lhasa in the late ‘80s had extinguished any hope that China would respond to Tibetan pleas for human rights. Perhaps it was the Israelis or the Westerners in general who corrupted the place. Perhaps it was just money. Fine people did remain there, but the noise of bumper to bumper traffic crawling through the narrow streets drowned out their voices, and the Punjabi and Mumbai drinkers came for the cheap booze and the sideshow of Western freaks. Historic files and photos, as well as religious paintings and statues, disappeared from archives only to emerge on foreign markets. Strangest still, for the visiting scholar, was the growing awareness that the Chinese in Tibet were then offering more access to archival sources than Dharamsala could, or would, provide.” - In Search of Mount Kailas, Alex McKay.
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