Tibetan Communist Party

Tibetan Communist Party was a small socialist group in Tibet, which functioned in secrecy under various names. The group was founded by Phuntsok Wangyal and Ngawang Kesang in the 1940s. It had emerged out of a group called the "Tibetan Democratic Youth League" created by Wangyal and other Tibetan students in Nanjing in the 1940s.[1][2]

The part sought to unite all Tibetans into one entity, compassing Kham, Amdo and Tibet proper.[3] The party contacted the embassy of the Soviet Union asking for its assistance as it began planning a socialist uprising in Tibet and Kham. Later Wangyal also contacted the Communist Party of China and the Communist Party of India.[4]

The Tibetan communists prepared guerrilla struggles against KMT forces, whilst promoting democratic reforms inside Tibet.

In 1949, the party merged into the Communist Party of China,[5] at a time when the 1931 Constitution of the CCP gave non-Chinese territories nominally under suzerainty of the former Qing Empire, such as Tibet, the right to independence and secession. [6]

References

  1. ^ New Left Review - Tsering Shakya: The Prisoner
  2. ^ July 2; 2004. "Case anthropologist tells story of Tibet Communist Party founder". http://www.case.edu/news/2004/7-04/tibetbook.htm. Retrieved 2008-06-21. 
  3. ^ Goldstein, Melvyn C. Goldstein/Sherap, Dawei Sherap/Siebenschuh, William R.. A Tibetan Revolutionary: The Political Life and Times of Bapa Phüntso Wangye. University of California Press, 2004. p. xiii
  4. ^ 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
  5. ^ Melvyn C. Goldstein; Dawei Sherap, and William R. Siebenschuh. "A Tibetan Revolutionary". http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9933.php. Retrieved 2008-06-21. 
  6. ^ Hisao Kimura. "Japanese Agent in Tibet". http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wDqlbKQhFIQC&pg=PP12&lpg=PP12&dq=%22anthony+aris%22&source=web&ots=Co7vj0nwNu&sig=_P3tgkU2kcUBen4wWmITxe1DzeY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=32&ct=result#PPA195,M1. Retrieved 2008-08-10.