India, Oct. 5 -- Exactly 75 years ago, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) crossed the Jinsha River on 7 October 1950 under the watch of Mao Zedong, President of the People's Republic of China (PRC), to invade Tibet after months of fruitless negotiations and subsequently annex it. This incident has changed the contours of South Asia's geopolitics in a big way.

Since this forceful annexation of Tibet by the PRC, the human rights situation in Tibet continues to deteriorate each year, with growing numbers of Tibetans unjustly arrested and imprisoned simply for expressing their identity through religion, culture, and language. These freedoms are guaranteed under international human rights law and even within China's own Constitution, yet they...