Although the Dalai Lama has been of fundamental importance to advocate non-violent approaches to policies and has never claimed to be seeking an independent nation status for Tibet, disputes between the two States have frequently escalated into violent conflict. After almost 10 years of the guerrilla war between Tibetan rebels and China’s The People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers, on the 17th March 1959, the political and spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama was forced to flee his own country into India. Tibet during this period saw thousands of deaths fighting the PLA forces. As shown in a BBC report, “All fighting-age men who had survived the revolt were deported, and those fleeing the scene reported that Chinese troops burned corpses
