The 1959 uprising
Knowing more about the 1959 "uprising" might help in understanding
today's events in Tibet.
In 2002 a book titled "The CIA's Secret War in Tibet" was published by
the University Press of Kansas. The two authors--Kenneth Conboy of the
Heritage Foundation and James Morrison, an Army veteran trainer for
the CIA--proudly detail how the CIA set up and ran Tibet's so-called
resistance movement. The Dalai Lama himself was on the CIA payroll and
approved the CIA's plans for the armed uprising.
The CIA put the Dalai Lama's brother, Gyalo Thodup, in charge of the
bloody 1959 armed attack. A contra army was trained by the CIA in
Colorado and then dropped by U.S. Air Force planes into Tibet.
The 1959 attack was a CIA planned and organized coup attempt, much
like the later Bay of Pigs invasion of socialist Cuba. The purpose was
to overthrow the existing Tibetan government and weaken the Chinese
Revolution while tying the people of Tibet to U.S. imperialist
interests. What does that say about today's March uprising, that's
done in the same spirit?
