Beijing Sends In the Masses to Make Tibet More Chinese
Not far from Potala Palace, the hilltop fortress once home to Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and still a symbol of Tibetan culture, the main commercial boulevard here has become a very different symbol, of how Tibet is inexorably becoming more Chinese.
Beijing Sends In the Masses to Make Tibet More Chinese
The area in front of the Potala Palace, a symbol of Tibetan culture, could now pass for a noisy street in Beijing. (European Press Agency)
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China occupied Tibet and East Turkestan by force with no right as soon as the communists had taken over the leadership in Beijing in 1949. As a result of this enforced occupation, Tibet not only lost one fifth (more than 1,200,000) of all Tibetans by violence