Tibetan protester burns himself in India

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That was a very, very long time ago, Kilic. By the time the Chinese invaded Tibet, they were a bunch of pacifists.

Certainly. But even if they weren't, there wasn't much that they could have done. My own people have been there, fighting them, Osman Batur(born Osman Islamoghlu), a hero of Eastern Turkestan, has battled much against both Chinese and Russian rule, by 1945, most of Eastern Turkestan was firmly in Turkish hands. However, the Chinese were persistent, he was caught at 1951 and executed by the Chinese in Urumchi, by having his arms and ears cut off after public humiliation.


The Dalai Lama was enthroned only a year before, not by the famed nationalistic Kuomintang, but by the Maoists.