The Tibetan Communist Party ( Tib. ཕུན་ ཚོགས་ དབང་ རྒྱལ ) is a communist party that existed illegally in Tibet in the 1940s.
| Tibetan Communist Party | |
|---|---|
| ཕུན་ ཚོགས་ དབང་ རྒྱལ | |
| Leader | Phuntzok Wangyal |
| Founder | |
| Dissolution date | |
History
The party was founded by Phuntzok Wangyal and Ngawan Kesan in the 1940s in Kama on the basis of the Tibetan Democratic Youth League, created by Tibetan students in Nanjing [1] [2] . The party saw one of its tasks in uniting all the Tibetans U-Tsang , Kama, Amdo . Wangyal's attempts to interest the Tibetan cabinet of ministers in promoting the armed struggle in Kama ended in failure. The party’s strategy during the 1940s was twofold: attracting progressive elements among students and the Tibetan aristocracy to the program of modernization and democratic reforms, as well as supporting the partisan struggle to overthrow the government of Liu Wenhui in Kama [3] .
The party turned to the embassy of the Soviet Union for support in the upcoming socialist uprising in U-Tsang and Kama. Later Wangyal got in touch with representatives of the Chinese Communist Party and the Communist Party of India [4] . The Tibetan Communists prepared to wage a guerrilla war against the Kuomintang army.
In the spring of 1949, the Tibetan communists, encouraged by the intensified activities of the Chinese and Burmese communists in the surrounding areas, also intensified their activities. In response, Wangyal and his comrades were expelled from Lhasa at the request of the Tibetan government. Through India, the Tibetan Communists reached in August 1949 to Western Yunnan . However, the local red commander, Qu Gen of the Bai people, demanded that the Tibetans pour their party into the CCP as a condition for joint partisan activity [3] .
In 1949, the Tibetan Communist Party became part of the Chinese Communist Party [5] .
Notes
- ↑ Tsering Shakya The Prisoner // New Left Review
- ↑ Jeff Bendix. Case anthropologist tells the story of Tibet Communist Party founder . case.edu (July 2, 2004). Date of treatment June 21, 2008. Archived on August 16, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 PHÜNTSO WANGYE - THE TRAGEDY OF TIBET'S FIRST COMMUNIST
- ↑ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein / Sherap, Dawei Sherap / Siebenschuh, William R. .. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye . Berkeley : University of California Press, 2004. p. 42-44, 78-82
- ↑ Hisao Kimura. Japanese Agent in Tibet . Date of treatment August 10, 2008.