China's Dark Legacy in Lhasa: Decades of Suppression and Cultural Genocide

China's Dark Legacy in Lhasa: Decades of Suppression and Cultural Genocide | Opinion

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The city of Lhasa, once the heart of Tibetan civilisation and the spiritual seat of the Dalai Lama, has been systematically transformed into a militarised outpost of state control. For over six decades, Beijing has imposed an iron-fisted administrative and ideological grip on Tibet, aimed not only at political integration but at the deeper objective of cultural erasure. Under layers of infrastructural modernisation and security expansion lies a brutal reality: suppression of Tibetan religion, language, and identity. Lhasa today is a heavily surveilled environment where expressions of cultural authenticity are interpreted as threats to national unity. The state narrative may speak of development and stability, but t...

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