Litang Monastery place
also: Le Tain, Letang
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“start from there. We're in February of 1956, and we were talking about the CIA operation of recruiting Tibetans to create stay-behind units. So in late February, in the third week of the Tibetan New Year celebration, the PLA suddenly laid s…”
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over mainland China. The photographic evidence came back to the CIA for interpretation. Though the rebellion was confined to eastern Tibet in its early years, Chinese actions in 1956 virtually ensured that it was spread more widely. One of …
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of a Tibetan New Year celebration, the PLA forces suddenly surrounded and sieged the monastery. Le Tain was crowded with about 400 monks. 2,000 more were in for the celebrations and 2,000 were merchants and townspeople. The Chinese besieged…
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The group of Tibetans charged the PLA lines and broke through. About 1,600 got away and 2,000 more escaped that night. The next day, the PLA occupied Letang. Many of the prisoners they captured would be cruelly put to death. It was the begi…
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The PLA helped resolve these problems by bombing monasteries beginning in Letang in 1956. Ultimately, even the monks took sides. The Tibetan second religious leader went with the Chinese eventually to become the Chinese-recognized religious…
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It was crowded with monks. A couple thousand more were in for the festivities. There were merchants and townspeople, about 8,000 in all. They put up a stiff resistance. The Chinese besieged the place for 64 days, culminating in strikes by j…
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The PLA helped resolve these qualms by bombing the monasteries. Ultimately, even the monks took sides. The Panshin Lama, Tibet's second most important religious leader, cast his lot with the Chinese. But most lamas took the rebel side. This…