Milestone in Tibet

As the Tibet autonomous region cel-ebrates the 60th anniversary of its peaceful liberation, Dharamshala and its sympathizers exhibit an intense fear of looking history in the eye.

They need to study the Agreement between the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on the Methods for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, also known as the 17-Article Agreement, signed on May 23, 1951, because it contradicts many of Dharamshala's and its sympathizers' claims.

First and foremost, the document displays a self-evident historical truth that is meticulously concealed in Dharamshala's account. In what the 14th Dalai Lama himself once described as an agreement reached "on friendly terms", and the 10th Panchen Lama said was completely consistent with the interests of the people of Tibet, the document shows in its very title that it was one between a central and local government.