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Photo foot, China refers to military incursion as a “peaceful release”, but exiled tibetans remember it as an invasion.

    • Author, Norberto Paredes*
    • Author's title, BBC News World

For almost 40 years, Tibet enjoyed de facto independence, but the victory of the communists in China in 1949 ended this parenthesis in the history of this convulsed Himalayan region.

On October 7, 1950 thousand troops sent by Mao Zedong, they entered Tibet, cornered their authorities and finally took the border city of Chamdo on October 19.

Under pressure from China, Dalai Lama, a Tibetan leader, signed the controversial agreement of the 17 points after eight months of occupation by the Chinese army, a document that officialized the annexation of the territory.

But according to the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and Nobel Peace Prize, the treaty is invalid because it was “forced on a homeless government that did not want to do it.” The Dalai Lama was barely 15 years old when he signed it.

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