In 1950, when Mao Zedong took power over newly Communist China, he decided to flex his authority by taking over Tibet, confiscating the Dalai Lama's military weapons. In 1959, a rebellion uprising in Tibet started to oppose the oppression that ultimately led to around 85,000 deaths. In the 1960s, over 6,000 monasteries were destroyed. In 2008, riots broke out and caused the deployment of 4,000 Chinese troops, which ultimately used violence to quell the protests.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/4152353.stm
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