Life under the turquoise blue sky, pristine valleys and snow capped mountains came to an abrupt end when the bloody red stars shrouded the celestial skies. Overnight the quietness and the innocence of the beautiful place where she was born was raped and decimated by Mao’s men. Her family torn, her husband killed, this nomadic lady gathers her courage and emboldens others like her to join the Tibetan resistance force. When Tibetan fighters would indulge in that guerrilla warfare to thwart enemies attack, these brave women would run under the barrage of the Chinese bullets to deliver food and essential supplies.
But as more than fate would have it, the ill equipped Tibetans resistance fighters are overwhelmed and crushed by artilleries and bombs. And, along with the execution of lionhearted Tibetan men in front of their eyes, hundreds of Tibetan women are taken into the chinese prison.
One of the women who was taken into prison that day died yesterday in the laps of the dauladhar range, the abode of His Holiness, at the age of 92. Ama Adhe as she was lovingly and fondly known. After being taken into prison by the Chinese, what began was an unthinkable 27 years of torture, starvation and abject dehumanization. Out of the three hundred women who were imprisoned and forced to work in the Chinese gulags like animals and starved to their skeletal frames, only four women would survive to tell the tale after being pardoned by the CCP to give a pretentious facelift to a brutal regime to lure the world for business.
But for Ame Adhe, the embers of the fighter in her never died, never caved and never surrendered. Even after her escape into India, she kept the unflinching flames of freedom burning and alive, like she kept the hopes of the fighters alive by running under the barrage of bullets to deliver them food and supplies back in the days.
She continued to carry her fight by transforming herself into an inspiring activist for Tibet by tirelessly telling the harrowing stories of the Chinese brutality to the world. She made herself a window to the darkness and brutal world of the Chinese prisons and gulags.
Her indomitable and unwavering spirit continued to fight for the justice of Tibet until her last breath. May her soul fly back to her nomadic village and roam through the endless grasslands, roam through the snow capped mountains and the valleys below. May her soul forever become our protector deity, for she was exactly that when she was in her flesh and blood.