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The 1959 Tibetan uprising (also known by other names) began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the People's Republic of China (PRC) since the Seventeen Point Agreement was reached in 1951. [2]
Tibetans and supporters protest against China for political prisoners at UN in NYC on March 10 Tibetan Uprising Day. Tibetan Uprising Day, observed on March 10, commemorates the 1959 Tibetan uprising which began on March 10, 1959, and the Women's Uprising Day of March 12, 1959, involving thousands of women, against the presence of the People's Republic of China in Tibet.
During the annual observance of both the 1959 Tibetan Uprising Day and the escape of the 14th Dalai Lama to India, monks from two different monasteries began marches into Lhasa on 10 March. Peaceful street protests and demonstrations grew, and were met by excessive force from Chinese police and military units on 14 March.
Speculations that the Dalai Lama might be abducted led to further violence and revolt in 1959, but the Tibetan forces were outnumbered and poorly armed. [25] Their accounts claim that during a Chinese operation launched in Lhasa, 10,000 to 15,000 Tibetans were killed within three days. [26] Artillery shells landed near the Potala Palace. [27]
The Tibetan people were worried that the Dalai Lama would be abducted by the Chinese, as this invitation was very clearly a thinly veiled trap. As a response “violent anti-Chinese demonstrations occurred throughout the city”. This was one of the sparks that incited the 1959 Tibetan uprising. Since they had feared he risked kidnapping, they ...
Kenneth Conboy and James Morrison, in The CIA's Secret War in Tibet, [25] reveal how the CIA encouraged Tibetan revolt against China — and eventually came to control its fledgling resistance movement. The New York Times reported on 2 October 1998 that the Tibetan exile movement received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the CIA. The Dalai ...
In March 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama escaped from Tibet, together with members of his family and his government. They fled the Chinese authorities, who were suspected of wanting to detain him. From Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, the Dalai Lama and his entourage travelled southwards to Tawang in India, where he was welcomed by the Indian authorities. [1]
1959: After a revolt against acceded reform, the 14th Dalai Lama fled Tibet with the help of CIA, [9] later set up an exile government in India. [10] 1960–62: Famine, caused by Great Leap Forward and termination of cross-Himalayan trade with India. [11] 1962: Sino-Indian War. 1964: Establishment of the Tibet Autonomous Region. 2011