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Tibetan capital Lhasa was witness to one of the most glaring escapes in modern Asian history on the night of March 17, 1959.
A young Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, slipped out of Lhasa disguised as a common soldier through the city’s shadows as the Tibetan capital was about to be gripped by a violent upheaval.
The Dalai Lama fled his palace to evade an imminent capture by Communist China’s forces. His escape from the clutches of the Chinese armed forces was not just an act of survival.
It was an unmistakable climax of a decade-long Chinese military pressure following the occupation of Tibet by Communist China in 1950.
The Lhasa crisis was steadily building up for years after the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) marched into Tibet and imposed Communist China’s control over the roof of the world.
For years, Communist-ruled Beijing was making efforts to consolidate its rule over Tibet, while publicly positioning itself as respecting Tibetan religio...
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