Statement of the Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile on the Commemoration of the 67th Anniversary of the Tibetan National Uprising

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Throughout the course of its historical evolvement since the very beginning of human society, the management and control of the Tibetan nation with regard to its political matters, governance, and legal system have been carried out by its own people without any sort of external dominion authority. This was because Tibet was a free and fully independent country. Its status as such was fully in keeping with today’s universally defined conditions for the recognition of a sovereign, independent country and for the recognition of the nationality by which such a nationhood is constituted. Besides, Tibet’s history of independence has been more robust and much longer than that of many other sovereign independent countries of today. Notwithstanding this fact, however, the People’s Republic of China launched an armed invasion of the country in 1949. The development culminated on the 10th of March in 1959, when people from all the three provinces of Tibet – monastics as well as the lay public – staged a massive uprising in capital Lhasa in a spontaneous outburst of united protest against the occupying communist Chinese power due the policies they implemented and the military domination they imp...

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