Posted by: Fast-Orange
I bet you don't actually know much about what he believes in. As far as what I believe goes that is not much of anything this guy says.
Under the old system he would have likely come out pf prison missing hands, or feet or eyes.
Do you actually know how Tibet became a part of China in detail? Do you know what it was like there when they were independent? Do you know how most people reacted when the PLA first arrived in Tibet? Do you know how the PLA behaved upon arrival. Do you know how many of the last 2000 years Tibet was a part of the Chinese empire? Do you you know who started the 1959 uprising and who was covertly supporting them hoping to increase the violence as much as possible?
If not then we can't even byegin to have a meaningful discussion about Tibet.
Answers:
In meetings and signed agreements.
One of the worst places to live in the world.
With open arms and tears of joy.
Many PLA soldiers went days without eating for days as they were not allowed to take any food from locals.
Most of them
Butthurt fuedal lords that were pissed off about losing the land and serfs they oppressed to live a life of lavish luxury while the serfs starved. The CIA was very happy to arm them and many monks who also used to live the high life on the backs of people who were lucky to live to 30 were also very happy to help the butthurt lords stash weapons and fighters in their monastaries. People need to drop the assumed purity of high ranking buddhist monks. Sometimes not even Catholic priests can compete with these fuckers. Just look at what they're doing in Burma these days.
In short Tibet today is so much better it's not even funny. Life expectancy has doubled and everybody eats and can get a job and an education. Too bad some people there are just too hung up on being allowed to choose their leaders via ridiculous religious rituals that were only designed as an arbitrary system of oppressive control, it probably would have gone a lot more smoothly. This monk was probably just another high roller too hung up on the lavish lifestyle of feudalism to give it up without a fight.