It was about the reincarnation of the 10th Panchen Lama, who in 1951 had been selected by the Communist regime in Beijing, ...

On March 28, 1959, millions of serfs in Tibet were liberated under democratic reform. In retrospect, this great historical event is comparable to any process of eradicating slavery in other countries ...

Beginning in 1956, democratic reform was also carried out in Tibetan areas of Gansu, Sichuan, and Qinghai provinces. In Yunnan Province, parental slavery among the Lisu, Jingpo, and Va ethnic groups ...

The new highways, giving Red China access to the undeveloped mineral resources of Tibet, also present impressive evidence of what a slave economy can do: the roads took 3½ years to build ...

In the first months after Red China’s savage suppression of last year’s Tibetan revolt, flight was the order of the day. More than 18,000 Tibetan refugees, including the Dalai Lama, poured ...

In the first half of the 20th century, while slavery had been abolished in most parts of the world, the feudal system continued to dominate Tibetan social structure, subjecting the Tibetan people ...

But most experts do not see them as "slaves" which could be bought and sold. "Tibet has never had a term for 'slave'. These people were not commodities… it was like a 'peasant and lord ...

And like Xinjiang, the abused people of Tibet connect to the global car supply chain. Is economic decoupling from China the solution to stop slave labor for car parts and other human rights abuses?