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Having little choice but to work with the 1951
Seventeen Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet
with China, the Dalai Lama is believed to have supported the
creation of the Tibetan resistance movement. His brothers moved to
Kalimpong in India and, with the help of the Indian and American
governments, organised propaganda against China and the smuggling
of weapons into Tibet. Armed struggles broke out in Amdo and Kham
in 1956 and later spread to Central Tibet. However, the movement
was a failure and forced to retreat to Nepal and/or go
underground. Following normalisation of relations between the
United States and China, American support was cut off in the early
1970s. The Dalai Lama then began to change his policy towards a
peaceful solution in which he would be reinstated in a democratic
autonomous Tibet.
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