Horror history of old Tibet

An article released on Tuesday by Guangming Daily quoted a number of Chinese experts as saying that the feudal serf system in old Tibet was crueler than that in Western Europe in the middle ages. The following is an excerpt:

Serfdom in old Tibet was much darker and more ferocious compared with the serf system prevailing in Western Europe during the middle ages, said Zhang Yun, a researcher with the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC).

He said that before 1959, Tibet had long been a feudal serf society that integrated religion with politics, and in which monks and the nobles practised dictatorship.