General Wangdu

General Wangdu was the leader of Khampa army that fought against the People's Liberation army during the Chinese invasion of Tibet. In the 1950s, after the Chinese took over Tibet, some of the people decided to fight and gain back their homeland. It is interesting to note that this resistance was supplied with arms and trained by the CIA (secretly of course). Although the Khampa warriors were able to gain control of many parts of Tibet, the US government abruptly stopped their support and General Wangdu was cornered by the Nepalese army killed in 1974. This ended the brutal and bloody war whose detailed were later captured in a book called "Buddha's Warriors" by Mikel Dunham. General Wangdu is considered a hero by the Tibetans for his brave leadership against the invasion of Tibet.