"The Most Serious Crime Against Humanity," the United Nations Left Out One

Ask AI · Why were the crimes against humanity committed under the old Tibetan serfdom system ignored by the United Nations?

A vote by the United Nations over the past two days described the transatlantic slave trade as “the most serious crimes against humanity.”

For four centuries, with tens of millions of Black people being trafficked and slaughtered, this brutal trade is indeed a permanent scar on the history of human civilization.

But to be frank, in the dark side of human civilization, there is another chapter—just as unspeakable, shocking, and appalling—whose maliciousness and cruelty are in no way less than those of the transatlantic slave trade.

The photos showing old Tibet-era serfs having their eyes gouged out are shocking. Photo source: China News Service

March 28 is a day engraved on a historical milestone on the snow-covered plateau—the anniversary of the liberation of one million Tibetan serfs.

Looking back on this day, the darkness that had been sealed away can no longer hide.

• Various oppressive taxes and miscellaneous levies, such as the braids tax, the collection of cow dung tax, and the singing tax;

• Cold, gleaming instruments of punishment;

• Pictures of the miserable lives of serfs;

• One by one, tangible legal artifacts made from serf bones and skin

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These are snapshots of life under old Tibetan serfdom; pick out any few at random, and you’ll feel chills run down your spine.

Viewers watch photos of human skin stripped from serfs in the related exhibition area. Photo source: China News Service

Can you believe it? Just more than sixty years ago, Tibetan serfs numbering in the millions were still trapped in a bottomless pit darker than European medieval times!

Since the 10th century, this place had already formed an suffocating “world that eats people.”

Three great lords—made up of officials, nobles, and senior monks from the monasteries—gripped every inch of land and every head of livestock in their hands. With less than 5% of the population, they almost consumed all of Tibet’s productive resources. Their control extended over material wealth—and also over spiritual life.

And what about the remaining 95% of serfs and slaves? They had nothing—so even their own selves did not belong to them.

Serfs in old Tibet lived in hunger and cold. Photo source: Xinhua News Agency

In the legal codes implemented in old Tibet, it was written in bold and authoritative terms: “The life value of people of the upper class and upper level is gold weighing the same as a corpse” and “the life value of people of the lower class and lower level is a blade of grass rope.”

One human life, cheap as a blade of grass rope.

Back then, old Tibetan serfs had a folk song, one that pierced the heart even more than a knife: “Even if the snow mountains turned into tallow, it would still be owned by the lords; even if river water turned into milk, we still wouldn’t get even a mouthful.”

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How is this old society at all? It is clearly hell on earth!

The three great lords of old Tibet—shouldn’t they be held accountable for “the most serious crimes against humanity”?

Serfs laboring while wearing shackles. Photo source: Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine

A serf holds an arm that a young noble had broken with a gun. Photo source: Yanhuang Chunqiu magazine

Let’s move our historical coordinates back to 1959.

That year was a major turning point in Tibetan history.

Tibet carried out democratic reform, completely abolishing the dark feudal serfdom system of old Tibet. The broad masses of serfs rose up, won liberation, and became masters of their own destinies.

During democratic reform, herders and farmers burn the contract of serfs from the Ganden Monastery. Photo source: Tibet Daily

In August of that year, the 73-year-old American female journalist, S t r o n g, arrived in Lhasa.

She saw it with her own eyes, heard it with her own ears—she was completely stunned.

In her book, Million Serfs Stand Up, she wrote: The people of Tibet finally felt freedom! From those ragged herders, we feel the joy on this land awakening… It is very clear that they have become the masters of the roof of the world, and this sense of being masters will keep growing stronger.

With the sharp instincts of an old journalist, S t r o n g delivered the historic turning point of the snow-covered plateau to the world. What she saw was this: in Tibet’s democratic reform, they returned life to everyone.

If S t r o n g were still alive, and she came to walk through this plateau again, then today’s Tibet—social stability, economic development, unity among ethnic groups, harmony among religions, and a good ecological environment—she would be even more astonished.

But strangely, there are always some Western politicians, some media, and some separatists hiding in the shadows who keep saying “old Tibet was a paradise” out loud, day after day.

The Dalai clique, led by the 14th Dalai Lama, along with some so-called Western scholars, tried to beautify the serfdom system of old Tibet, but they never once mention that old Tibet was the worst place in the world for violating human rights.

Let’s look back at Tibetan history.

In old Tibet, in order to have the 14th Dalai Lama recite scriptures and celebrate his birthday, the relevant institutions even issued orders for “urgently needed a set of moist intestines, two skulls, a variety of blood, and an entire sheet of human skin.”

Even horror films wouldn’t dare film it like that!

And take a look at the “good deeds” the 14th Dalai Lama, who talks nonstop about “compassion,” has done these years: the glaring data mentioned 169 times in the Epstein files, the money ties with the NXIVM sexual cult organization, openly supporting the leader of Japan’s Aum Shinrikyo, Shoko Asahara, and openly demanding that an underage boy suck his own tongue…

What those toppled old Tibetan ruling groups, once led by him, miss was never “faith.” It was that kind of perverse privilege where one could decide life and death, and skin people alive—without breaking any law!

In a public event, the Dalai Lama demanded that a boy suck his own tongue.

Even more absurdly, some Western media have published reports that distort the truth of serfdom, claiming in the most outrageous way that “serfs were cared for by the lords for life,” and that they had “iron-rice-bowl” jobs……

Let’s widen the lens a bit and look at the world.

Feudal serfdom was long ago swept into the trash bin of history by many countries in succession—Russia in 1861, Poland in 1864, Iceland in 1894, Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1918, Afghanistan in 1923…

What about the United States? Starting in the 1830s, after years of struggle and a civil war, slavery was formally abolished in 1865.

The wheels of history keep rolling forward. The whole world is moving forward—yet some people want to drag Tibet backward.

So we’d like to ask these people:

• Are you really bold enough to travel back to old Tibet and live through even a single day there?

• In the face of the dark history of old Tibet, why have you all gone silent?

• In the face of the liberation of millions of serfs rising up, why are you determined to smear and twist the truth?

• Is it only Western narratives that deserve to be called “human rights”?

Voting by representatives of the People’s Congress of the Tibet Autonomous Region. Photo source: Tibet Daily

Today’s Tibet has seen its gross output value increase by 150 times, life expectancy per capita rise by a generation, Tibetan girls can become flight attendants, and athletes from the snow-covered plateau appear on the stage of the Winter Olympics……

If these things were placed in old Tibet, people wouldn’t even dare to imagine them in a dream.

The first Tibetan female air force pilot, G e s a n g B a i z h e n . Photo source: People’s Daily

But external hostile forces insist on wearing rose-colored glasses of prejudice, telling blatant lies with eyes open, and continuously fabricating rumors about boarding school education, Tibetan Buddhism, and more.

Among them, there are remnants of serf owners who fantasize about swinging the leather whip again, and there are also certain Western politicians who treat “human rights” as a political opportunism tool and create obstacles for China’s development.

These farces are nothing more than daydreams assembled from the ambitions of exploiters and the prejudices of hegemonists.

The reasons why Western hostile forces attack our country’s Tibet-related issues boil down to nothing more than the lingering influence of colonialist ideology, as well as identity anxiety brought about by China’s rise.

A dream is still a dream. Even if a lie is repeated a thousand times, it remains a lie—and it cannot shatter the ironclad evidence of history.

Finally, let’s return to the news at the beginning of the article.

When Mahama, president of Ghana, proposed the resolution on “the most serious crimes against humanity,” he said: “Let history remember. When history calls, we did the right thing for the millions of people who were enslaved and humiliated.”

That’s right.

In fact, the democratic reform that took place in Tibet in 1959 was the most correct thing that the Chinese government did for the one million serfs of old Tibet.

It’s just that the United Nations’ “most serious crimes against humanity” still leaves one thing out—the vicious serfdom system in Tibet.

Source: Xiaoyuangui

Original title: 《“The most serious crimes against humanity,” the United Nations missed one》

Editor: Zhao Xiaoqian

Editors-in-charge: Zhao Yifan