Mao’s China · TURNING POINT ·
PLA in Lhasa and the Tibetan uprising (1951)
On the Mao’s China map as “Lhasa, 1951 and 1959”
26 Oct 1951 — The PLA enters Lhasa under the Seventeen-Point Agreement. 10–20 Mar 1959 — Crowds gather around the Norbulingka palace to prevent the Dalai Lama from going to a Chinese army camp. He escapes on the 17th, and the PLA shells the palace on the 20th. The disputed estimates of the dead in Lhasa range from roughly 2,000 to 10,000.
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- Tibet and Xinjiang under Mao (chapter 3 of Mao’s China)
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- The People’s Republic under Mao, 1949–1976
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