How many people lived in Tibet before the invasion?
Six million Tibetans lived in Tibet before the invasion. So it was over 17% of the entire population of Tibet that the Chinese killed! We cannot keep quiet about what has happened to the Tibetans! For example, in the Amdo region of northeast Tibet, of the 100,000 people of the nomadic Golok tribe who lived there before the invasion, as of 1979 there were left only 4,700 survivors! I know that there used to be thousands of monasteries in Tibet. Before the Cultural Revolution, the Chinese destroyed all our historical sites — temples, monasteries, museums. They completely destroyed over 6,000 monasteries and historical sites! And what happened to all the monks who used to live there? Oh, my — the Chinese put all the monks into labor camps — some in Tibet, some in the Chinese Turkistan area, in the Mongol border area. People died in prison like flies.
