Can someone explain to me what happened about tibet and china and the dalai lama?

Question

Can someone explain to me what happened about tibet and china and the dalai lama?

Answer 1

China and Tibet have a very long history together. In the 1950's, China invaded Tibet. Tibet has Uranium, as well as controlling the headwaters to all of the major rivers in India, so Tibet is valuable to them. They slaughtered over 100,000 people,  many of them Monks who had taken vows of peaceful behavior. There used to be over 6,000 monasteries and now there are 6, which are there for tourists. The Dalai Lama along with many tibetans went to India where he runs the Tibetan Government in Exile, and is still considered the head of state by Tibetans. Today in Tibet, it is still illegal to even own a small picture of the Dalai Lama.