(en) Elaine Kurtenbach, 1962 report by Tibetan leader tells of mass beatings, starvation, Associated Press, 11 février 1998 ; citation : (en) « The report (...) apparently circulated in China's top echelons for decades until a copy was delivered anonymously to the (Tibet Information Network) group ».
Warren W. Smith Jr, The Nationalities Policy of the Chinese Communist Party and the Socialist Transformation of Tibet. In (en) Robert Barnett et Shirin Akiner, Resistance and Reform in Tibet, Londres, C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, , 320 p. (ISBN1-85065-161-2, lire en ligne).
(en) Barry Sautman, "Demographic Annihilation" and Tibet, in Contemporary Tibet. Politics, Development, and Society in a Disputed Region (sous la direction de Barry Sautman, June Teufel Dreyer), M.E. Sharpe, 2006, p. 230-257 ; citation : « The pro-independance Tibetan Youth Congress, in a work on development in Tibet, fails to mention a famine associated with the Great Leap Forward », p. 243. Le Congrès de la jeunesse tibétaine affirme cependant que vers la fin de la révolution culturelle, des dizaines de milliers de Tibétains périrent de faim dans l'Ü-Tsang en raison de la surculture des terres semées en blé. « It does claim that during the late Cultural Revolution period in U-Tsang, "tens of thousands of Tibetans" died as a result of overcultivation of land sown with wheat (TYC 1995, 18-19) ».
A. Tom Grunfeld, The Making of Modern Tibet, M. E. Sharpe, 1996, (ISBN1-56324-714-3), p. 16 : « The life of the vast majority of the Tibetans was not "enviable" by any stretch of the imagination. They lived "in small, badly lighted, cold hovels" and ate a mixture of tsampa, butter, and tea, and if they were lucky, some meat. (...) One refugee reports that when his family lived in Tibet, at a level that could be considered lower-middle class in Tibetan terms, they could experience, at most, "two food crises a year". The nomad diet was slightly better in that it had a high concentration of protein (meat, cheese, milk, yogurt), but it lacked vegetables and grains (citant "Hungarians in Tibet: The Genesis of Revolt, Eastern Europe 8:8 (August 1959) :18") ».
(en) « Chinese sources now show that at least 50 million Chinese died from hunger in the period 1958-62. Few provinces escaped the famine entirely, but the greatest number of deaths occurred in a great arc of misery that swept from east to west through central China: Shandong — 7.5 million, Anhui — 8 million, Henan — 7.8 million, Sichuan — 9 million, Qinghai — 0.9 million, Tibet — 1 million. In proportional terms, it was Tibet that suffered most, losing an estimated 25 per cent of its population of 4 million. », Michael J. Lynch, Mao, Routledge Historical Biographies, 2004 (ISBN978-0-415-21577-0), p. 171 (voir en ligne).
(en) Lillian M. Li, Fighting famine in North China: state, market, and environmental decline, 2007, 520 p., en part. p. 358 ; citation : « The famine was experienced al over China, but more severely in some provinces than in others. Sichuan, Anhui, Henan, and also Tibet were the most seriously affected provinces, as seen from the demographic record and other evidence ».
(en) Barry Sautman, Tibet: Myths and Realities; citation : « Only anecdotal evidence for all deaths by starvation among Tibetans is available and comes from the eastern edge of the plateau, where the Tibetan share of the population has long been minimal and where most of those who died were non-Tibetans ».
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(en) The Panchen Lama ; citation : « The panchen lama was arrested after a 1964 speech supporting the exiled Dalai Lama ».
(en) Robert Barnett, Thunder for Tibet, compte rendu du livre de Pico Iyer, The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, Knopf, 275 p., in The New York Review of Books, vol. 55, no 9, 29 mai 2008 : « the number killed or starved to death since Chinese annexation remains unverified, although estimates by exiles run into the hundreds of thousands ».
Philippe Hayez, Mourir pour Lhassa. Un épisode méconnu de la guerre froide : « La nécessité de nourrir les 5 000 hommes cantonnés à Lhassa et les 10 000 hommes des garnisons situées le long des routes stratégiques suffit à déstabiliser la modeste économie tibétaine, provoquant hausse du prix des céréales et famines ».
(en) China's top Tibetan official criticises Panchen Lama report (TIN), site World Tibet News, 9 avril 1998, Kathmandu (Népal), 91 p. ; citation : « In the petition, he gave a graphic description of the starvation that was widespread in eastern Tibet during the early 1960s as a result of the Chinese policy known as the Great Leap Forward ».
(en) China's top Tibetan official criticises Panchen Lama report (TIN), site World Tibet Network News, 9 avril 1998 ; citation : « Ngabo's comments on the famine are a criticism of the information in the Panchen Lama's petition, but he does not challenge its authenticity or express any criticism of its publication ».
(en) Tibet: Starvation Diet, Time (magazine), 27 janvier 1961 : « Ever since Tibet's brave but abortive revolt against Red China in 1959, refugees have straggled across the border into India by two and threes. Last month they came by the scores and even the hundreds. They were driven by hunger. (...) the Chinese confiscated all the cereal and vegetable foods in all the villages under their control and made an inventory of all sheep, cattle and yaks. (...) In many villages, the refugees reported, Tibetans have been reduced to eating grass weeds and wild tubers. Estimated deaths due to Tibet's enforced starvation diet: 5,000. »
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(en) Height of Darkness: Chinese Colonialism on the World’s Roof, Tibetan Response to Beijing’s White Paper of 8 November 2001 on Tibet’s March Toward Modernization, Department of Information and International Relations, Central Tibetan Administration, Dharamsala 176215, December 2001, page 11.
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(en) Leslie Evans, How repressive is the Chinese government in Tibet?, sur le site UCLA International Institute, 4 décembre 2002, compte rendu d'une conférence du professeur Barry Sautman à l'université de Californie à Los Angeles; citation : « There are no bases at all for the figures used regularly by the exile groups. They use the figure of 1.2 million Tibetans dying from the 1950s to the 1970s, but no source for this is given. As a lawyer, I give no credence to statistics for which there is no data, no visible basis ».
