“数以千计的生命，为了美国的利益，在西藏牺牲了。“ 达赖喇嘛１４世。
http://bbs.51.ca/thread-260753-1-1.html
"thousands of lives were lost in the resistance" and further, that "the US Government had involved itself in his country's affairs not to help Tibet but only as a Cold War tactic to challenge the Chinese."
CIA backing
In October 1998, The Dalai Lama's administration acknowledged that it received $1.7 million a year in the 1960s from the US government through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and also trained a resistance movement in Colorado (USA). When asked by CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus in 1995 whether the organization did a good or bad thing in providing its support, the Dalai Lama replied that though it helped the morale of those resisting the Chinese, "thousands of lives were lost in the resistance" and further, that "the US Government had involved itself in his country's affairs not to help Tibet but only as a Cold War tactic to challenge the Chinese."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_Dalai_Lama
达赖喇嘛与华人社区对话：欢迎抗议示威