The Myth of Chumik Shenko
Charles Allen challenges the accepted account of a tragic massacre that took place in Tibet a century ago this month.
On the morning of March 31st, 1904, two armies faced each other on the roof of the world. It was a confrontation between the mightiest political power in the world, represented by professional soldiers armed with Maxims, ten-pounders and Lee-Metfords, and one of the weakest: a medieval peasant army made up largely of conscripted serfs carrying swords, spears and the crudest of matchlocks.
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