we remember Pamo Kusang who, on March 12, 1959, led a nonviolent women's protest outside the Potala Palace in protest of China's rule, known as Women's Uprising Day. She was executed a decade later for organising the protests.

 we remember Pamo Kusang who, on March 12, 1959, led a nonviolent women's protest outside the Potala Palace in protest of China's rule, known as Women's Uprising Day. She was executed a decade later for organising the protests.

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This picture is of Kundeling Kusang, aka Pamo Kunsang. She was the niece of Tsarong Dasang Dadul married to an official of the Kundeling Gurteng family.

On March 12, 1959 thousands of Tibetan women gathered in front of the Potala Palace in Lhasa, united against the Chinese unlawful occupation of Tibet. This was the spark that initiated the Tibetan women’s movement for independence.
It was initiated and led by Pamo Kunsang and others. At the gathering, she spoke forcefully against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

In 1969, during the Cultural Revolution, Pamo Kunsang led the protest in prison. As a result, she and a number of other Tibetan women activists were brutally tortured and later executed by China.

The execution took place near Sera Monastery. The women were made to kneel before their graves. Their heads were shaved clean and they looked so bruised and weak that no one could recognize them.

The executioners fired a shot each at the back of their heads. They fell into the graves on their faces. The soldiers then fired a few more bursts of bullets on them in their graves and then covered them with soil.