Since 1959, when China claimed power over this tiny mountain nation, more than one million Tibetans are believed to have perished by starvation, execution, imprisonment, and abortive uprisings. Many thousands more, including their spiritual and political leader, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, have been driven into exile. The country has been systematically colonized, so that indigenous inhabitants are now a second-class minority. Not only are Tibetans being squeezed out by Chinese settlers, but there are reports of Tibetan women being forcibly sterilized and of healthy full-term babies being killed at birth. Thousands of Tibetans languish in prison and suffer appalling torture. Rich mineral resources have been plundered and the delicate ecosystem devastated. Buddhism, the life blood of Tibet, has been ruthlessly suppressed. Mary Craig tells the story of Tibet with candor and power. Based upon extensive research and interviews with large numbers of refugees now living in exile in India, this book presents four decades of religious persecution, environmental devastation, and human atrocities that have caused Tibetans to weep "tears of blood."

Tears of Blood: A Cry for Tibet, Mary Craig, Counterpoint, Paperback, 384 pp, $21.95

A former journalist and broadcaster, Mary Craig is the author of many books, including Kundun, a critically acclaimed biography of the Dalai Lama's family. She lives in Hampshire, England.

CONTENTS: Tears of Blood
Foreword		15
Prologue		17
1	No Smoke Nor Dust	23
2	A Breathing Space	40
3	Divide and Rule, 1951	48
4	"Act of Violence"	61
5	Small Candle in a Storm	79
6	The Elephant's Foot	89
7	Uprising in Lhasa, 1959	100
8	"Springtime has Come to Tibet", 1960	115
9	The White Crane Flies South	135
10	Liberating the Neighbours, 1962	149
11	"Big Rock on the Road", 1964	157
12	Exceeding all Limits, 1966	166
13	A Chinese Vietnam, 1969-76	184
Interlude Ends and a Beginning: The Tibetan Exiles, 1963-73		196
14	"This is Plain Colonialism", 1979	196
15	From Liberalization to Apartheid, 1980-1983	225
16	The "Final Solution", 1985	242
17	Battle is Joined, 1987	255
18	Crackdown, 1988	268
19	"Kill the Chickens and Warn the Monkeys", 1989	287
20	"A Volcano Ready to Erupt", 1990-1991	306
Epilogue The Exiles: Dharamsala, Himachal Pradesh, India, September 1991		322
Afterword to the 1999 U.S. edition		333
Notes
Bibliography
Index