If Tibetans were not so politically important to the West in its schemes and plans, Tibet would be considered a theocracy which violates human rights much like ISIS.

Trader Gyebo Sherpa was subjected to the severe corca whipping for selling cigarettes. He died from his wounds 2 days later in the Potala prison. Tashi Tsering, a self-described critic of traditional Tibetan society, records being whipped as a 13-year-old for missing a performance as a dancer in the Dalai Lama’s dance troupe in 1942, until the skin split and the pain became excruciating. The top level Tibetan official Lungshar’s eyes were gouged out by direct order of the Kashag or Tibetan Government was carried out in 1934.

In 1950, the six Tibetan border guards that had been involved in the killing or wounding of Frank Bessac’s companions (one of them Douglas Mackiernan) as they were fleeing into Tibet, were tried and sentenced to mutilation in Lhasa’s military court: “The leader was to have his nose and both ears cut off. The man who fired the first shot was to lose both ears. A third man was to lose one ear, and the others were to get 50 lashes each.” (The punishment was subsequently changed to lashings on Bessac’s request)

Did you know Tibet used Christian converts as slaves?

Sources before they are scrubbed from the Internet:

• Melvyn C. Goldstein, A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State, London/Berkeley, University of California Press, 1989, p. 163
• Goldstein, Tsering, and Siebenschuh, 1997, pp. 3-5.
• Goldstein, Sherap, Siebenschuh 2004 p. 90.
• A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951, Melvyn C. Goldstein pp. 208-209
• https://web.archive.org/web/20160502004248/https://books.google.com/books?id=8ksEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA130&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
• https://archive.vn/20120715115605/http://usf.usfca.edu/pac_rim/new/research/pacrimreport/pacrimreport36.html