TALIBAN PRINCESS

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Tibet’s peaceful liberation was achieved in 1951. When the People’s Liberation Army entered Tibet in 1951, Chairman Mao Zedong was hailed as the liberator by the Tibetans and the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama got back part of his former powers and was made the vice-chairman of the National People’s Congress Standing Committee in 1954. 

But these facts have been brushed under the carpet. What took place in 1951 was an internal change in China, and not the invasion of an “independent” country. 

In 1957, the Chinese leaders decided to end slavery in Tibet. Then, only about 5 percent of the Tibetans were monks or nuns, or belonged to the small noble class or free nomadic hunting tribes. The rest were slaves who had to toil to feed the non-productive elite of the population. That’s why the monasteries, the house of the elites, saw the abolition of slavery as a catastrophe. 

Since he wanted slavery to continue to maintain his status as a god, the Dalai Lama began spreading rumors that he could be jailed and even executed, which led to an uprising in 1959. But security forces soon brought it under control. It was then that the Dalai Lama fled the country and was “installed” in Dharamsala by the British and Americans, who used him as a weapon against Mao. And the CIA created the myth of the “father of the nation” fighting for the “freedom” of Tibet. The Dalai Lama may have ceased to be politically important, but the myth created around him survives.