With the Chinese policy of resettlement of Chinese to Tibet, Tibetans have become a minority in their own country. Chinese is the forced official language. Up to 6,000 monasteries and shrines have been destroyed. Famines have appeared for the first time in recorded history, natural resources are devastated, and wildlife depleted to extinction. And nuclear and chemical weapons litter the Himalayan landscape.
Tibetan culture comes close to being eradicated there.
Through non-violent means and actions, H.H. the Dalai Lama has addressed assemblies throughout the world advocating freedom and democracy for Tibet from the communist Chinese government. This culminated with the Nobel Peace Prize being awarded to H.H. as well as well as HH addressing the United States Congress.