evelop Tibet economically, required the peasants to switch the crops to wheat, which never grew at a height of 12,000 feet. They had been told that the barley crops would be theirs, but when the harvest came, two-third was requisitioned for and by the Chinese. As a result, tens of thousands of Tibetans starved to death between 1959 and 1961. In addition, the Chinese military and civilian personnel were fed on the state buffer stocks and forced the Tibetan population to sell them their personal holding of grains for nominal prices. GenocideAlthough the famine in Tibet seems to be linked to other factors than the genocide, the two cannot be separated. The food shortage was caused both by the drastic changes in land tenure and by the desire of the Chinese to exterminate the Tibetan people. In fact, no Chinese suffered from the famine they created. One sixth of the Tibetan population has been killed, shot, hung, strangled, drowned, boiled, raped, buried alive, starved, mutilated, or burned alive. Over 1.2 million Tibetans have been, up until today, victims of the final solution started by the communist China. Close to 600 thousands monks died in working camps, in prison or on the road to exile. IV. FAILURE OF ENTITLEMENTS In this case, the failure of all four entitlement is linked to the Chinese invasion and its genocide of the Tibetan people. LandMost of the fertile lands in the valleys were given to the Chinese settlers, driving the Tibetans to more and more barren lands. Evidence also shows that the primary beneficiaries of China's new open economic policy were the Chinese settlers in Tibet. TradeTibetan economy had a long tradition of trade with India. They exported rough material like wool and imported manufactured goods such as sugar, noodles, and shovels. China soon discouraged this market by imposing high taxes on these goods and eventually closed the markets where the trading took place.WageBefore Maos reforms, the tr...
