Tibet Row: 'There is no absolute freedom anywhere'

The Dalai Lama knew only the outlines of the C.I.A.-assisted warfare carried on in his name. In 1995, when Knaus, just retired from the agency, asked him, ''Did we do a good or bad thing in providing this support?'' the Dalai Lama thanked the C.I.A. for organizing some of the guerrillas who protected him during his flight into Indian exile in 1959. But he told Knaus that 'thousands of lives were lost in the resistance and that 'the U.S. Government had involved itself in his country's affairs not to help Tibet but only as a cold war tactic to challenge the Chinese. Now is time for India to help Tibetans to gain independence and thus save our rivers from drying up as its catchment areas are in Tibet where China is planning to construct dams.. India can instill in Chinese a desire for democracy and the democracy in China will make that nation travel to the path of peace.

Ancient monasteries and temples were systematically destroyed, civilians including monks and nuns, were killed, raped, scalded and imprisoned. Chinese created artificial famine. Some 1.2 million Tibetans were killed. The CIA made its last arms drop in May 1965. The Nepalese protested to India about the gurella camp, and ignorant Indians protested to the Dalai Lama, while the Chinese kept up the political pressure on both Nepal and India for letting the Tibetans stay there at all.President Richard Nixon's rapprochement with China that rang the death knell for the Tibetan resistance. The base in Mustang struggled on until 1974, when the Nepalese government, under tremendous Chinese pressure, sent troops to shut it down. The Mustang leaders refused to surrender. In an effort to prevent a Nepalese slaughter of his people, the Dalai Lama issued a taped message to be played in all the camps, ordering the Tibetans to lay down their arms. Then we turned in our weapons and some Tibetans threw themselves into a river and were drowned. A CIA-trained senior Tibetan officer slit his own throat on the spot.

CIA, got an intelligence coup when 40 Tibetan horsemen overran a small Chinese convoy in what came to be called the blue satchel raid in which yielded a blue sack full of 1,500 documents for CIA. The documents contained the first hard evidence of the failure of Mao's Great Leap Forward, famine, and discontent within the PLA. Such courier satchels captured in Tibet had details of proposals being made by China to India. The Tibetan spy team located deep inside Chinese territory photographed Chinese military sites, made maps and located potential parachute drop zones, at the same time helping to inform the United States about China's missile programs and efforts to develop nuclear weapons. After repeated attempts, Tibetan operatives managed to plant sensors that gave Washington its earliest clues of China's first nuclear test at Lop Nor, north of Tibet, in 1964. With new roads and airfields China filled Tibet with troops and equipment. Ancient monasteries and temples were systematically

Roger McCarthy, was the CIA operations officer in charge of the Tibetan program. In one of the many attacks a group of 200 Tibetan gurellas fought the Chinese for 15 days, killed 550 Chinese soldiers. On January 24, 1959, 130 men attacked the Chinese in Tengchen and seized the fortress in Teng Dzong. The destruction of the Chinese was systematic. Eventually the gurella force reached 35,000 Tibetans. The CIA made several arms drops. But China using airpower prevailed in the end and killed thousands of men, women and children. In the summer of 1960 the Tibetan operations base was relocated to Mustang province, a scrap of Nepal jutting into Tibet. From there the resistance planned, with CIA help, to send 2,100 fighters in groups of 300 into occupied Tibet. In the wake of the 1960 U-2 spy plane incident, the CIA withdrew support. In 1961 new president John F. Kennedy resumed support for Tibetan resistance. The CIA dropped arms and a seven-man team to camps in Nepal. The Mustang guerrillas proceeded to make a series of smashing raids along the nearby Sinkiang-Tibet Highway

Tibet’s misfortune today is because of Indian inaction and more specifically because of Jawaharlal Nehru. The quintessential maverick that he was he refused to see the dangers to India from a hostile, imperialistic foreign power occupying a benign, friendly neighbour. Any other country in India’s place would have moved heaven and earth to maintain that buffer. Even Pakistan did so with respect to Afghanistan when it was invaded by the USSR but not peaceful, Gandhian India. Nehru is truly a ‘world class leader’. He ranks among the top five who have lost most territory in world history. He ranks alongside Darius (who lost to Alexander), Yedzhegerd (who lost to the Arabs) etc… if one adds Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Aksai Chin and even NEFA during the 1962 war. Not only that he was ready and willing to gift the whole of Assam to the Chinese. No, not today’s Assam, it is 1962 Assam, which practically meant the whole of the North-East!

The Chinese troops of the Peoples' Liberation Army marched into Tibet in 1950 immediately after assuming power in Beijing on 1st October, 1949. Since then Tibet has been under the iron fist of China. The Chinese have tortured, imprisoned, raped and murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent Tibetans. Many Tibetans escaped to India and have lived as refugees here and across the world ever since and are also trying to raise awareness of their plight around the world. But another big question is why did not India intervene to save a buffer state which would have meant that a major hostile power would be kept well far away from its frontiers? Is it because the buffer was not really that big afterall? Was it not worth defending? What would have been the strategic advantages India would have gained if Tibet had remained an independent country to this day?

After Chinese occupation in 1949 from 1951 onwards fort 20 years Tibetans fought a long, bloody war of resistance that struck serious blows to China. Tibetan traders mobilized a resistance movement that would later become Chushi Gandrug (Four Rivers, Six Mountains). Chushi Gandrug's organizer was a hard-fighting, 51-year-old trader named Gompo Tashi Andrugtsang. Uncoordinated and poorly armed Tibetans conducted a series of surprisingly successful raids and battles against the Chinese. It should have been in India’s interest to support these freedom fighters, but the anti national Nehru did not help the Tibetans. Dalai Lama's elder brother, Gyalo Thondup, who had already been approached by the CIA, contacted the Americans. CIA trained Tibetans and by 1957, Tibetan guerillas were jumping out of aircrafts over Tibet. This ultrasecret project was code-named "ST Circus." The CIA was in the fight for the liberation of Tibet. On March 17, 1959, resistance fighters smuggled Dalai Lama out of his residence, the Potala, and through guerrilla-held territory and with the help of two CIA-trained Tibetans reached Indian border.

the united nations if functioning,should call for total boycot of china [economical and cultural]till tibet is set free to rule itself.

So they can curtail all freedom. What a logic? Only the Communists can come up with this other than George Bush. In China there is no freedom to say of other than to make money and to repress people who are not of ethnic Chinese origin. They move the ethnic Chinese and depopulate or marginalize the local population. Luckily we do not tolerate this in India. People can move in India but they should learn to adapt to the local language and culture. Otherwise locals protest. This is exactly what happened in Tibet. It is time that the world raise up and demand that the rights of Tibetans to their homeland and culture are protected and their autonomy respected. It does not matter if Tibet is part of China or India or independant. Tibetan people should have the soverign right to their language, culture, religion, etc without being dictated otherwise by a government far removed from them and who do not share their faith, belief, language or culture. Long live autonomous Tibet.

Communism and Islamic terroism is the same. Both never allow any independent thinking, demands unquestionable and total submission to authority, never encougares anyone to try to know anything other than that ideology. A class of opportunists arise from the ashes of ideology who enjoy king style life while majority of common people are treated as pawns and animals whose only fate is to sacrifice their lives when authority demands (for “noble cause” to keep those blood suckers, social paracites in power). Our Indian communists are no expection. Although they are trying to change their skin to suit Indian style democracy, as they are not bold and honest enough to try for a “revolution”.

If India supports Tibet, China is for sure going to raise concern for Kashmir. The ground reality is very different for these 2 vastly different situations. Tibet was occupied after a long period of freedom in modern times, after China claimed that it had been a historic part (or perhaps ruled by force) of itself. That means anything historically linked to China is Chinese. Kashmir was an integral part of undivided India. Freedom struggle in Tibet has been mostly unarmed, and Chinese army is always able to crush any uprising with brute beastly force. Kashmir insurgency is supported by Pakistan, with AK-47 supplied by China, where the insurgents are equipped with latest in gadgets. Therefore, the reaction of modern Indian readers is in full support of Tibet's cause. It is very sad to hear crude statements by Chinese politicians in a mediveal style; as it makes us wonder what kind of people are they, and if they have learnt anything to be worthy of being politicians who care for people.

The only place in the world where there is no absolute freedom in the world is in China. This commie thug Qin is blatantly lying to the world. How long can these ruthless, vile and despicable commie leaders fool the world. If there is God and truth, it is high time that this shameless and fake regime be brought to justice. Save Tibet!

To support His Excellency Dalai Lama, I promise not to buy any Chinese goods onwards.

Just like there is no absolute communism, there no absolute freedom in the world! There was a time that commis were cursing the USA just like Muslim Terrorists are doing now days.....well, the commi regime of China got rich because of the absolute capitalism of the USA! The Chinese have occupied Tibet for no reason by scaring weak India in time of Nehru. Chinese and Tebetans are different people and they do not have any thing in common, not even nationalism. Tibetan has every right to fight occuping forces of China.

The address of the Quin Gang to the press is simply to blatantly lie to the and to address the concerns of the peoples of the world about Tibet and the people of Tibet and the rebellions in the colonial territories under Beijing’s control. If the Tibetan’s are free, why did the competent authorities declared Lhasa out of bounds to journalists and tourists? There can be one reason i.e. Beijing is hiding its savage acts of terror against the poor, simple and unarmed Tibetans; defiling the traditional institutions of the Tibetans primarily the ‘Spiritual and Temporal’ institutions of the ‘Dalai Lama’. Mass murder, treachery, savage oppression, annexing by force and fraud the territories of the nations in the neighbourhood, committing global terror with the complicity of the despotic regimes etc… are the areas in which Beijing regime has the masterly authority. This is the freedom Quin Gang and his higharchy are addicted to, as they have no taste for the sterling qualities of real freedom. To oppressed Tibetans and to the world of the free Beijing’s concept of freedom is rightly considered as primitive and abhorrent.

There is no absolute freedom anywhere in the world , well yes, but there is no place in the world other than CHINA where there is absolutely no freedom