Seventy‑five years after the Chinese army entered Tibet, the region still faces pressure from Beijing, but its people keep their heritage alive, a global report says. The report, released on Wednesday, followed the memories of Tibetans worldwide who recalled what happened on October 7, 1950, when the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) crossed into the eastern province of Kham, marking the start of what many consider an occupation rather than a liberation.
The report describes how 80,000 Chinese soldiers swept across the plateau and overwhelmed an 8,000‑strong Tibetan garrison. “It was a day when an ancient, peaceful civilisation was invaded, silenced, and scarred,” the Tibet Rights Collective said. The Seventeen‑Point Agreement of 1951, signed under duress, promised Tibet autonomy, religious freedom, and dignity—promises that today feel largely unrealised.
The report lists the lasting impact on Tibetan culture. More than 6,000 monasteries were demolished, sacred texts burned and monks jailed, the group said. “China promised peace, but delivered chains,” it added, noting that the world largely stayed silent while the mountains witnessed history.
Today, nearly one million Tibetan children attend Chinese state‑run boarding schools far from their families, monasteries and mountains. In these sterile classrooms, Mandarin replaces Tibetan and party slogans replace compassion. Many children grow up unable to speak to their grandparents, drifting away from their identity.
According to a 2025 study titled “Weaponising Big Data: Decoding China’s Digital Surveillance in Tibet,” a system of biometrics, DNA profiling and facial recognition feeds Beijing’s predictive policing. The United Nations has called this “cultural erasure,” a strategy that aims to raise a generation that sees Tibet as a Chinese region, not their homeland. “This is not education—it is assimilation,” the report warned, describing the slow erasure of a civilisation, one child at a time.
The Tibetan Plateau, often called the Third Pole, feels the strain of militarisation and exploitation. The report highlights China’s dam projects on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the Brahmaputra) that threaten the water lifeline of South and Southeast Asia.
From India to Europe to the United States, Tibet’s diaspora keeps reminding the world that a country can be occupied, but its conscience cannot be bought. Seventy‑five years on, Beijing still controls the land, but the soul of Tibet belongs to those who refuse to forget.
Source: ianslive
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