China has marked on Mar 28 the 67thanniversary of its termination of what was akin to a one-country-two-systems promise it had made to Tibet in 1951 with the raising of its Red Star flag before the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace in capital Lhasa. It organized Tibetan public cultural performances – including a Sinicized one in Beijing – and carried out a blaze of online publicity about having put an end to “the dark, cruel, barbaric, and backward theocratic feudal serfdom” in Tibet as if that justifies its current occupation rule there.
People from all walks of life attended a flag-raising ceremony at the Potala Palace Square in Lhasa on Mar 28 morning to mark the region’s 18th Serfs Emancipation Day, reported China’s online Chinadaily.com.cn Mar 28.
Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai declared the dissolution of the “local” Tibetan government on Mar 28, 1959 and he replaced it with a temporary Preparatory Committee for the Tibet Autonomous Region (PCTAR) following the largely peaceful Tibetan uprising protests earlier that month, on the 10th.
