《喇嘛王国的覆灭》中文 英文版(pdf)

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Tibet-_A_History_of_Modern_Tibet-_Goldstein.zip

hukai2690

虽然看不懂 但还是要顶一下

hoping100

it's a good idea. I also have a simpler version. PLease spread to people who speak English

Tibet was ruled for 100s of years by theocrats; the most vile form of sovereignty known to man. The monasteries owned all property and Tibetans were literally owned as slaves. For example the Drupang monastery owned 25000 serfs and 16000 herdsmen. The slaves were not paid and had no rights while the lamas lived in luxury. The commander in-chief of the Tibetan Army (yes, Tibet had an army) personally owned 3500 slaves.

It was estimated that of the 1.25 million people Tibetans than 700 thousand of them were slaves to the monasteries. Pretty slave girls were taken from their villages to become house servants for the richer lamas and there were many stories of sexual abuse. Slaves who tried to escape were beaten, sometimes to death, and Tibetan law condoned this form of "punishment".

Tibetan lamas even used torture against their own people. Tsereh Wang Tuei was convicted of theft (he stole a sheep to feed his starving family) and as punishment had his hands and eyes mutilated. The Tibetan torture equipment was still in active use right up to the invasion by the Chinese army.

In 1959 the Chinese (violently) imposed their form of communism on Tibet. This immediately meant the abolishment of torture, floggings, mutilations and amputations as forms of punishment. They built schools and created clean water supplies. They divided the land amongst the Tibetans; abolishing slavery in the process.

The Chinese were ruthless against the Tibetan lamas who rightly perceived that their power and wealth was slipping away - this is where the history of human rights abuses stems from - but the average Tibetan welcomed the Chinese invasion. Wangchuk was a former slave who said "I may not be free under Chinese communism, but I am better off than when I was a slave".

Is the Chinese occupation all roses and smiles? Of course not, but the story is not as one-sided as some of you might believe.