Professor Carole McGranahan who has long studied the Tibetan perspective of China鈥檚 invasion and occupation of Tibet, joins the Tibetan community to commemorate the location on June 9 at Camp Hale, Colorado.
For decades, the听听to fight Chinese invaders was a state secret, but even after the U.S. government formally acknowledged the CIA-Tibet effort, the exact location of the Tibetan camp remained a mystery.
With the dogged research of anthropologist听Carole McGranahan, the precise location is now known. McGranahan, a 麻豆视频听anthropology听professor who鈥檚 been studying the Tibetan perspective on the resistance to China for more than three decades, will soon join Tibetans from Colorado and beyond to commemorate the camp, six decades after it was closed.
The memorial gathering, which is titled 鈥淒umra/The Secret Garden鈥揅ommemorating the CIA-Tibet Program at Camp Hale,鈥� will take place at noon on June 9 at听.
Members of the Tibetan community from around the world and several members of parliament of the Dalai Lama鈥檚 exile government in India are scheduled to attend, as is one of his cabinet ministers.
McGranahan said finding the training camp鈥檚 actual location now is meaningful for two reasons. 鈥淥ne is that most of the veterans and retired (CIA) agents have passed,鈥� and the other is that the history of the operation had been suppressed and concealed for decades鈥攁 condition McGranahan calls 鈥渁rrested history.鈥�
Tibetans, for instance, have been unable to 鈥渃elebrate and honor these soldiers in a way that they deserved,鈥� she said. 鈥淭his service, not just to Tibet but to the Dalai Lama, was the defining moment of their lives.鈥�
For the Tibetan community to know the actual location, she added, 鈥渋s meaningful in a way that even as a scholar I hadn鈥檛 fully appreciated.鈥�
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