RIP AMA ADHE

Tibetan resistance soldier Ama Adhe has died on August 3 at age of 92 in Dharamsala. She was born in 1928 to a Tibetan nomadic family in Kham Nyarong, east Tibet. Ama Adhe's husband was poisoned by Chinese agents. She was arrested and remained in jail for 27 years. In 1985, Deng Xiaoping pardoned some political prisoners including Ama Adhe. Ama Adhe came to India in 1987 and settled in Dharamsala. Through her book Ama Adhe: The Voice that Remembers: The Heroic Story of a Woman’s Fight to Free Tibet, published in 1997, and numerous talks and interviews, she tried her best to counter Chinese propaganda on Tibet. Let us not forget Ama Adhe.

Palden Sonam Dharamsala