"1. It is estimated that one million Tibetans have died as a result of the Chinese occupation, through imprisonment, torture and executions.
2. Since March 2011, more than 100 Tibetans in Tibet have set themselves on fire in protest of the Chinese government’s oppressive regime. These protests are continuing in 2013.
3. In 2008, a United Nation report concluded that the use of torture in Tibet was “widespread” and “routine”.
4. The Tibetan plateau holds the world’s third largest store of fresh water in glacier form. One billion people rely on this water source, which is under threat because of China’s policies of strip mining, deforestation, damming and diversion of rivers.
7. More than 6,000 monasteries were destroyed in Tibet by the Chinese."
-FreeTibet.org