| Summary/Abstract |
In the spring of 1959, the Tibetan public in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, rose up in peaceful protest against Chinese rule. The uprising was brutally rushed by the occupying People’s Liberation Army (PLA). PLA documents record that in the spring and summer of 1959 alone 87,000 ‘rebels were eliminated’ in central Tibet (Smith 1996, 451). These documents do not include those Tibetans killed by the PLA in Kham and Amdo in eastern and north-eastern Tibet.
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