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    “Two revolutions and Tibetan resilience”                                                                                                             -Som                               (Culture revolution and Tibetan peace revolution 2008) My grandmother's untold story of the Cultural Revolution in Tibet was shocking, extreme, and unbearable. She narrated her tragic story with tears in her eyes and a pale facial expression. She had experienced a real hell on earth and never saw any ray of hope in her future life at that time. The revolution was generally considered to have begun in China around 1966 by Mao Zedong. However, the faint climate of the Cultural Revolution existed since 1959 when the People's Republic of China completely occupied Tibet and carried out a series of repressions and violent destructions in Tibet. During the ten-year Cultural Revolution in Tibet from 1966 to 1976, in the name of removing four old obstacles, “old thinking, old culture, old tradition

“Do or Die; India-China Border” -A letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi

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Indian Army at Himalaya Border “We the Tibetan people are ready to stand-up with the country of India and Tibet’s Independence is India’s Security”                                                                                                                                                          -Som History is based on facts and evidence; we can’t negotiate our past history. China has never been India’s neighbor in history. Tibet was a buffer state between the two most populous Asian giants, India and China like Mongolia, a nation bordered by China and Russia. When we talk about the India-China border, we should know about Tibet first. Tibet was an independent country before the Chinese occupied it in early 1959. The Tibetan people would never accept “Tibet was a part of China”, which is based on a historical fact that should be accepted by the whole world. The border issue between India and China has never been at rest since China occupied Tibet. There had been a series