历史事实清楚地证明，所谓“西藏独立”完全是新老帝国主义侵略者炮制出来的，是西方侵略势力瓜分中国领土阴谋的一部分。
(三)解放西藏是中国人民解放事业的重要组成部分
面对帝国主义的侵略和压迫，包括藏族在内的中国各族人民为维护国家的独立、统一和领土完整，为实现中华民族的解放，不惜流血牺牲，进行了长达100多年不屈不挠的斗争。直到在中国共产党的领导下，经过艰苦卓绝的斗争，中国人民的解放斗争才取得了完全胜利。1949年，人民解放战争取得决定性胜利，中华人民共和国宣告成立。人民解放军进军西藏、解放西藏，驱逐帝国主义势力出西藏，提上了议事日程。
Historical facts clearly demonstrate that the so-called “Tibet independence” was in fact cooked up by old and new imperial-ists, and was part of Western aggressors’ scheme to carve up the territory of China.
3. The liberation of Tibet was an important part of the cause of the Chinese people’s liberation.
In face of aggression and oppression from imperialists, all ethnic groups of China, including the Tibetans, had waged un-yielding struggles for more than a century and at the cost of many lives to safeguard the independence, unity and territorial integrity of China, and to realize the liberation of the Chinese nation. It was under the leadership of the CPC that the Chinese people achieved final victory in the Liberation War after ex-tremely hard struggle. In 1949 the Chinese people won decisive victory in the people’s Liberation War, and the People’s Republic of China was founded. Then, it came on the agenda that the PLA would march into Tibet, liberate it and expel imperialists from it.
针对帝国主义分子和西藏地方上层反动势力紧锣密鼓策划“西藏独立”的活动，1949年9月2日，中国共产党授权新华社发表题为《决不容许外国侵略者吞并中国的领土——西藏》的社论，在概述列强百年来侵略西藏的过程后指出，“西藏是中国的领土，绝不容许任何外国侵略；西藏人民是中国人民的一个不可分离的组成部分，绝不容许任何外国分割。这是中国人民、中国共产党和中国人民解放军的坚定不移的方针”。社论发表后，西藏各界纷纷响应和拥护，盼望解放军早日进藏。1949年10月1日，十世班禅致电中央政府“速发义师，解放西藏，驱逐帝国主义势力”。11月23日，毛泽东、朱德复电十世班禅说：“中央人民政府和中国人民解放军必能满足西藏人民的这个愿望”。12月2日，原西藏摄政五世热振活佛的近侍热振·益西楚臣到青海西宁，向人民解放军控诉帝国主义者破坏西藏内部团结的罪行，要求迅速解放西藏。1950年初，藏族农牧民、青年、妇女和民主人士代表百余人在刚刚解放的兰州集会，要求解放西藏。西康省甘孜白利寺五世格达活佛、康北玉隆地区头人夏格刀登和康南巨商邦达多吉派出的代表到达北京，向中央人民政府毛泽东主席致敬，倾诉藏族同胞迫切要求解放的热望。
为了应对国际形势的复杂变化和西藏地方的严峻局势，满足西藏人民要求早日解放的愿望，1949年12月，毛泽东主席在前往苏联访问、途经满洲里时，写信给中共中央，作出了“进军西藏宜早不宜迟”的战略决策。
In response to “Tibet independence” activities plotted by imperialists and reactionary forces from the upper strata of Tibet, on September 2, 1949 Xinhua News Agency, with authorization from the CPC, published an editorial under the headline, “For-eign Aggressors Are Resolutely Not Allowed to Annex China’s Territory — Tibet.” The editorial summarized how some big powers had invaded Tibet over the previous century, and then pointed out, “Tibet is part of Chinese territory; all foreign ag-gression is not allowed. The Tibetan people are an inseparable part of the Chinese nation, and any attempt to divide them from China will be doomed. This is a consistent policy of the CPC and the PLA.” All sectors of society of Tibet quickly responded and expressed support for the editorial and the hope that the PLA would enter Tibet as soon as possible. On October 1, 1949 the 10th Panchen Lama sent a telegram to the Central People’s Government: “Dispatching troops to liberate Tibet and expelling the imperialists as soon as possible.” On November 23 Mao Zedong and Zhu De telegraphed the 10th Panchen Lama: “The Central People’s Government and the Chinese PLA will certainly comply with this wish of the Tibetan people.” On December 2 Reting Yeshe Tsultrim, an aide of the 5th Regent Reting Rinpoche, arrived in Xining, Qinghai Province, to make complaints to the PLA about the imperialists’ atrocities of de-stroying the internal unity of Tibet, urging the PLA to liberate Tibet as soon as possible. In early 1950 over 100 Tibetan people, including farmers and herdsmen, young people, women and democratic representatives, assembled in Lanzhou, which had been liberated not long before, and urged the PLA to liberate Tibet. The 5th Gedar Tulku of Beri Monastery in Garze, Xikang (Kham) Province, headman Shaka Tobden of Yilung in northern Xikang, and the business tycoon Pangda Dorje in southern Xi-kang sent representatives to Beijing to pay tribute to Chairman Mao Zedong of the Central People’s Government and they ex-pressed the Tibetan people’s urgent and earnest wish for the liberation of Tibet.
To address the complicated changes in the international situation and the grave situation in Tibet, and to satisfy the Ti-betan people’s wish for liberation as soon as possible, in De-cember 1949 Mao Zedong wrote a letter to the CPC Central Committee in Manzhouli on his way to the Soviet Union for a visit. In the letter, Mao made the strategic decision that “it is better for the PLA to enter Tibet sooner rather than later.”
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