Wangdu Gyatotsang

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Naissance	1930 Xian de Litang
Décès	Août 1974 District de Jumla
Nationalité	Tibet
Activité	Militaire
Parentèle	Gompo Tashi Andrugtsang (oncle)

Wangdu Gyato-tsang, parfois appelé Gyatso Wangdu, Gyato Wangdu, ou Wangdu, né en 1930^[1] et mort en août 1974^[2], neveu de Gompo Tashi Andrugtsang est un résistant tibétain.

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Wangdu Gyato-tsang était membre du Chushi Gangdruk fondé par Gonpo Tashi Andrugtsang, une organisation de la guérilla est-tibétaine. Gyatotsang a été formé par la CIA vers 1957. Il a été envoyé à Mustang, au Népal, en tant que successeur de Baba Gen Yeshe, commandant de la guérilla tibétaine. Gyatotsang est mort en 1974 après avoir été pris en embuscade et tué par l'armée népalaise au col de Tinker dans le district de Jumla^[3].

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↑ Kenneth J. Conboy, James Morrison, The CIA's Secret War in Tibet, 2002 , p. 39 : " In February 1957, John Hoskins was ordered by Washington to immediately identify eight Tibetan candidates for external training as a pilot team that would infiltrate their homeland and assess the state of resistance. Gyalo, who had been in Kalimpong making an eleventh-hour bid to convince his brother to seek asylum, was given responsibility for screening candidates among the Tibetan refugees already in India. Although the twenty-seven Khampas did not know it, Gyalo intended to make the selection from their ranks. Using the photographs taken by Norbu at Bodh Gaya, he sought guidance from two senior Khampas in town, both of whom hailed from the extended family of Gompo Tashi Andrugt- sang, a prominent trader of Tibetan wool, deer horns, and musk. With their assistance, Gyalo soon settled on his first pick. Wangdu Gyato- tsang, age twenty-seven, had been born to an affluent Khampa family from the town of Lithang."
↑ (en) Jane Ardley, The Tibetan Independence Movement : Political, Religious and Gandhian Perspectives, 2003, 224 p. (ISBN 978-1-135-79025-7, lire en ligne), p. 40.
↑ John Avedon, In Exile from the Land of Snows, p. 179

[1] Kenneth J. Conboy, James Morrison, The CIA's Secret War in Tibet, 2002 , p. 39 : " In February 1957, John Hoskins was ordered by Washington to immediately identify eight Tibetan candidates for external training as a pilot team that would infiltrate their homeland and assess the state of resistance. Gyalo, who had been in Kalimpong making an eleventh-hour bid to convince his brother to seek asylum, was given responsibility for screening candidates among the Tibetan refugees already in India. Although the twenty-seven Khampas did not know it, Gyalo intended to make the selection from their ranks. Using the photographs taken by Norbu at Bodh Gaya, he sought guidance from two senior Khampas in town, both of whom hailed from the extended family of Gompo Tashi Andrugt- sang, a prominent trader of Tibetan wool, deer horns, and musk. With their assistance, Gyalo soon settled on his first pick. Wangdu Gyato- tsang, age twenty-seven, had been born to an affluent Khampa family from the town of Lithang."

[2] (en) Jane Ardley, The Tibetan Independence Movement : Political, Religious and Gandhian Perspectives, 2003, 224 p. (ISBN 978-1-135-79025-7, lire en ligne), p. 40.

[3] John Avedon, In Exile from the Land of Snows, p. 179

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