（来源：CGTN）

转自：CGTN

【1959年西藏民主改革，西藏封建农奴制度终结】历史记录显示，旧西藏时期，贵族和寺院的上层僧侣仅占人口不到5%，却垄断了全部耕地和畜牧业。农奴则占据了旧西藏人口的90%以上，他们被视为农奴主的私人财产，可以任意买卖和使用。1959年西藏实行民主改革，彻底废除封建农奴制度。In feudal Xizang society, the nobility and senior monks had monopolized all the region's arable land and livestock. Serfs, on the other hand, who accounted for over 90% of the population, were the private property of their masters and could be bought, sold, used, tortured and even murdered at will. Xizang's democratic reform in 1959 shattered the centuries-old feudal theocratic serfdom, which had long held both religious and political power.