This is cool. The Tibetan oral history project has a series of interviews with veterans of the Chushi Gangdruk guerilla organisation who took to the proverbial hills after the Chinese invasion in 1959 and fought off and on - with intermittent help from the CIA and the Taiwanese government - until disbanding in 1973.
'Chushi Gangdruk' means 'four rivers, six ranges' and refers to the Kham and Amdo regions of greater Tibet which are now part of China, as well as being the places where the vast majority of the recent wave of self-immolations have taken place.
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