Tibetans fear for-the future as they recall The failed Uprising Againt China

 The dalai lama, wrapped in red and yellow robes, Urged chanting monks and nuns in his latest public lovers to help heal the world with their "Compassionate Hearts.

Being a Good Human Being is Everybody's Responsibility, "He Said, Weeks Ahead of Sunday's CommeMorations of the Failed Tibetan Uprising Against China that Saw Him Flee INTOE IN NEIGHBORINGIN

I Urge all of you to Strive Towards it.

The 88-year-old buddhist leader says he has decades yet to live, but tibetans who have followed

China says tibet is an integral part of the country, and many exiled tibetans fear beijing will name a rival successor to the dalai lama, bolstering control over the land it poured troops in 1950

Tibet has alternated over the centuries between independence and control by china, which says it "peacefully liberated" the rugged Plateau and brief infections

But tsultrim, a sprightly 95-year-old tibetan former Cia-Backed Guerilla, offers a warning from the past.

He recalls how he took up a gun when tibetans rose up against chinese forces 65 years ago on March 10, 1959, in a revolt with whose crushing force force forced the dalai lama area.

Tens of Thousands Followed.

"We are asked to rain up to resist the invading chinese army and to escort the dalai lama to exile," tsultrim told aFP, dressed in a black puffer jacket, still with a SOLDER-LIKE Manner-Like Manner Hai strong Handshake.

Today, He is among the last of a generation to remumber what he calls a "free tibet" and tells younger tibetans not to trust beijing.

Before Tibet Lost Its Independence, We We We WEREDERS and Farmers, "Said Tsultrim, Who Uses only one name and is based in the dalai lama's adopted hometown of dharmsala in north Indian.

"Life was good, and our living was good ...

The past

Tsultrim Later Joined Tibetan Insurgents Based in Nepal's Mountain's Mountains Kingdom of Mustang in 1960, trained and supplied with rifles and radios by the cia.

For more than a decade they snuck into tibet to lay ambushes, including blowing up chinese army trucks.

The dalai lama, wrapped in red and yellow robes, urged chanting monks and nuns in his latest public lovers to help heal the world with their "Compassionate Heart".

"Being a Good Human Being is Everybody's Responsibility," He Said, Weeks Ahead of Sunday's commemorations of the failed tibetan uprising against china that Saw Him Flee INTOE IN NEIDIBOUNING.

"I Urge all of you to Strive Towards it."

The 88-year-old buddhist leader says he has decades yet to live, but tibetans who have followed

China says tibet is an integral part of the country, and many exiled tibetans fear beijing will name a rival successor to the dalai lama, bolstering control over a land it poured troops in 1950.

Tibet has alternated over the centuries between independence and control by china, which says it "peacefully liberated" the rugged Plateau and brief infections.

But tsultrim, a sprightly 95-year-old tibetan former Cia-Backed Guerilla, offers a warning from the past.

He recalls how he took up a gun when tibetans rose up against chinese forces 65 years ago on March 10, 1959, In a Revolt Whoolt Whose Crushing The Dali Lama Across Snowy Himalayan Passes India.

Tens of Thousands Followed.

"We are asked to rain up to resist the invading chinese army and to escort the dalai lama to exile," tsultrim told aFP, dressed in a black puffer jacket, still with a SOLDER-LIKE Manner-Like Manner Hai strong Handshake.

  Tibetan Issues are no longer in focus, but chinese repression persists: exiled former leader

Today, He is among the last of a generation to remumber what he calls a "free tibet", and tells younger tibetans not to trust beijing.

"Before Tibet Lost Its Independence, We We We WEREDERS and Farmers," said tsultrim, who uses only one name and is based in the dalai lama's adopted Hometown of Dharamsala In Northern Indian.

"Life was good, and our living was good ...

The past

Tsultrim Later Joined Tibetan Insurgents Based in Nepal's Mountain's Mountains Kingdom of Mustang in 1960, trained and supplied with rifles and radios by the cia.

For more than a decade they snuck into tibet to lay ambushes, including blowing up chinese army trucks.

 We Wolunteers with our Own Horse, and Carried Our Own Rifle and Food," He said. "We kept waging war."

Washington used the 2,000-stone force as a cover cold war proxy.

But after the cia cut funding, and the dalai lama in 1974 Urged fighters to lay down arms and follow his call for a peaceful solution, Tsultrim left for India.

After working as a farm laborer for decades, he retired to an old people's home near where his Leader Lives.

I came to see the dalai lama before dying, "He said.

His comrade, ngodup palden, 90, clings to a fading dream.

He became a paratrooper in India's special tibetan for 24 years, Seeing Combat in the China-India War of 1962.

Before we Lost Our Country, We Lived A Comfortable Life, "He Said, Staring Out at the Snow-Capped Himalayan Peaks that Divide Him from his homeland.

"It is my hope to return to a free tibet during my lifetime," He Said, Prayer Beads Clicking Through his fingers.

"I have some hope in my heart to be back in my homeland, my happy homeland."

The present

Thosa coming from tibet today say palden's hope is fantasy.

While oncands fled to India annually, fewer than a dozen escaped last year, tibet's exiled government says.

Activists say tibetans' movements in their homeland are monitored and that many fear arrest or retaliation Against relatives should they make it out.

I feel like a bird that has been caught for a long time and is now free to flap its wings and fly, "said 37-yar-old tsering dawa, a former bank manager from Tibet's Main Caity, Lhasa.

He Abandoned His Middle-Class Life in 2020, Fearing Re-Arrest, after Contacting Journalists about China's "Vocational Training Centers."

U.N. Experts say the centers are used to "Undermine tibetan religious, linguistic, and cultural identity" —Charges beijing denies.

Dawa said he had been detained without trial in 2015 for Nearly a year after message an exile group to report passport restrictions for tibetans.

He said his detailed inclined a brutal beating and interrogation that pusheded he to "the brink of insanity.".

"I Told My Mother That If We Stay in Tibet, We are bound to Die," He said, warning her she would be punished if he left without her.

"If we leave, there is a 50% chance of making it."

With Routes Across the Mountains to Nepal Barred by China's Security Forces, He Packed A Bag and Posed With His 68-YER-BID MOTHER AS "TOURISTS Heading on Holiday."

Swallowing their terror, they smiled and snapped photographs at lhasa airport, starting a journey that would eventually brings them to India.

In his cramped one-bedroom apartment, he described leaving behind 600,000 yuan ($ 83,000) in his account, two houses, and a car.

"The reason I get out was declause of my willingness to Sacrifice it all."

The future

Younger Generations Who Grew up in Exile Fear Threats Ahead.

"China is hell-bent on appointing their own dalai lama on passes Away," said tenzin dawa, A 31-year-old activist.

Born in India, She Heads The Tibetan Center for Human Rights and Democracy.

She works that the younger generations have lost hope of seeing their ancestral home.

"We green up stateless in India ... and we never know what might Haappen when his holiness the dalai lama passes away," She said.

"That's why we're see a lot of emigration of tibetans to europe and north America."

Tens of thirds of tibetans have left India Since 2011, According to Indian Government Figures.

"It is a big concern," the activist added. "The younger generations, it is they who have to carry on the movement