Jillian

  = G    e     n    o    c    i   d    e     i     n    T    i    b   e   t. ..    =  -  --- Tibet, an independent country, a geographical group, was oppressed over many years by the Chinese. Due to the fact that China believed that Tibet is a part of China,that every Tibetan person belongs to the Chinese race. The acts of violences taken to abolish the Tibetan race were extreme. In 1949, the Chinese invaded Tibet, eventually when they gained control of the territoy, they began colonization. A communsit leader of China, Mao Zedong, killed approximately 1.2 million Tibetan people through acts such as war, famine, class struggle, anf forced labor in thought-reform labor camps. As well as 60 million of his own, through the same acts. These acts can go right along with those in the genocide section of the pyramid of hate. Because China's overall goal was to completely abolish the Tibetan race, and replace all of their people with Chinese in place of them.China's desire was to rid all of the Tibetan history and re-write it, along with the language, culture, and religion. And eventuallyaccomplish their aspiration of the Chinese completely taking over Tibet. The spiritual and political leaderof Tibet, the Dalai Lama, tells the Tibetans what they must do and gives them hope throughout this genocide. He said, "The main thing is to preserveour culture,to preserve the charcter of Tibet. That is what is most important, not politics." This genocide in Tibet can be compared to the happenings in thestory, "Night", by Elie Wiesel. Both the Jews and the Tibetans were a targetof an oppressor, they were both a group of people who were targeted to beabolished. The Jews, by Hitler. And the Tibetans, by Mao Zedong. Both fall into the genocide section of the pyramid of hate, because both situations were the deliberate, systematic, extermination of an entire people. The Jews and the Tibetans. And unfortunately, the genocidein Tibet still goes on today.

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