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 Writing in 1940, after his visit to Tibet in 1936â€“7, British Army officer [[Freddie Spencer Chapman]] said:
-{{quote |"Since the expulsion of the Chinese, following the revolution of 1910, there has been no official representative in Lhasa. In 1934, however, when General Huang Mu Sung returned to China, he left a wireless transmission set in the charge of a certain Mr. Tsang. As the Tibetans have no other form of wireless transmission, Tsang became a rather important person. This was especially clear during the recent disturbances on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, for it takes ten days or a fortnight for a mounted messenger from Lhasa to reach Derge or Chamdo. If Tsang did not like the message he changed it; if he disapproved of it altogether, he just didn't send it."<ref>Chapman, F. Spencer. ''Lhasa: The Holy City'', p. 96. (1940). Readers Union Ltd., London.</ref>}}
+{{quotation |"Since the expulsion of the Chinese, following the revolution of 1910, there has been no official representative in Lhasa. In 1934, however, when General Huang Mu Sung returned to China, he left a wireless transmission set in the charge of a certain Mr. Tsang. As the Tibetans have no other form of wireless transmission, Tsang became a rather important person. This was especially clear during the recent disturbances on the Sino-Tibetan frontier, for it takes ten days or a fortnight for a mounted messenger from Lhasa to reach Derge or Chamdo. If Tsang did not like the message he changed it; if he disapproved of it altogether, he just didn't send it."<ref>Chapman, F. Spencer. ''Lhasa: The Holy City'', p. 96. (1940). Readers Union Ltd., London.</ref>}}
 In 1935 the 14th Dalai Lama, [[Tenzin Gyatso]] was born in Amdo in eastern Tibet and was recognized as the latest reincarnation. He was taken to [[Lhasa]] in 1937 where he was later given an official ceremony in 1939. In 1944, during [[World War II]], two [[Austria]]n mountaineers, [[Heinrich Harrer]] and [[Peter Aufschnaiter]] came to Lhasa, where Harrer became a tutor and friend to the young Dalai Lama giving him a sound knowledge of western culture and modern society, until he was forced to leave in 1959.
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 In 1991 the [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama|Dalai Lama]] alleged that Chinese settlers in Tibet were creating "Chinese Apartheid":
-{{quote|The new Chinese settlers have created an alternate society: a Chinese apartheid which, denying Tibetans equal social and economic status in our own land, threatens to finally overwhelm and absorb us.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1347735.stm "Profile: The Dalai Lama"], ''[[BBC News]]'', April 25, 2006.</ref><ref>United States Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, 1993, p. 110.</ref>}}
+{{quotation|The new Chinese settlers have created an alternate society: a Chinese apartheid which, denying Tibetans equal social and economic status in our own land, threatens to finally overwhelm and absorb us.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1347735.stm "Profile: The Dalai Lama"], ''[[BBC News]]'', April 25, 2006.</ref><ref>United States Congressional Serial Set, United States Government Printing Office, 1993, p. 110.</ref>}}
 The [[Central Tibetan Administration]] states that the number that have died in the [[Great Leap Forward]], of violence, or other indirect causes since 1950 is approximately 1.2 million,<ref>[http://www.tibet.net/en/diir/pubs/wp/tb96/Tibet%20Proving%20Truth.pdf 'Tibet: Proving Truth from Facts'], ''The Department of Information and International Relations: Central Tibetan Administration'', 1996. p. 53</ref> According to Patrick French, a supporter of the Tibetan cause who was able to view the data and calculations, the estimate is not reliable because the Tibetans were not able to process the data well enough to produce a credible total. French says the CTA based this total on refugee interviews, but prevented outsider access to the data. French, who did gain access, found no names, but "the insertion of of seemingly random figures into each section, and constant, unchecked duplication". Furthermore, he found that of the 1.1 million dead listed, only 23,364 were female (implying that 1.07 million of the total Tibetan male population of 1.25 million had died)<ref>Barry Sautman, June Teufel Dreyer, ''Contemporary Tibet: Politics, Development, And Society In A Disputed Region'' pp. 239</ref>. There were, however, many casualties, perhaps as many as 400,000. This figure is extrapolated from a calculation Warren W. Smith made from census reports of Tibet which show 200,000 "missing" from Tibet.<ref>''Tibet, Tibet'' ISBN 1-4000-4100-7, pp. 278â€“82</ref><ref>Warren W. Smith, ''Tibetan Nation: A History of Tibetan Nationalism and Sino-Tibetan Relations'' ISBN 0-8133-3155-2, p. 600</ref> Even ''[[The Black Book of Communism]]'' expresses doubt at the 1.2 million figure, but does note that according to the Chinese census the total population of ethnic Tibetans in the PRC was 2.8 million in 1953{{Fact|date=February 2007}}, but only 2.5 million in 1964{{Fact|date=February 2007}}. It puts forward a figure of 800,000 deaths and alleges that as many as 10% of Tibetans were interned, with few survivors.<ref>''Black Book'' ISBN 0-674-07608-7, Internment Est:p. 545, (cites Kewly, ''Tibet'' p. 255); Tibet Death Est: p. 546</ref> Chinese demographers have estimated that 90,000 of the 300,000 "missing" Tibetans fled the region.<ref>Yan Hao, [http://www.case.edu/affil/tibet/booksAndPapers/tibetan.population.in.china.pdf 'Tibetan Population in China: Myths and Facts Re-examined'], ''Asian Ethnicity'', Volume 1, No. 1, March 2000, p.24</ref>

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 * [http://www.tibetphotogallery.com Tibet Photo Gallery - A complete Travel Photos]
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