Why is it important for Americans to know about the Tibetan people and their oppression? And why should we free them? After all this I was wondering the same thing, turns out there is both a heavy incentive to the US government and her businesses if Tibet were to be liberated. Uranium, the Tibetan plateau is in possession of the richest store of mine able uranium ore in the world. In the game of world super powers controlling the world’s uranium a big card to carry in your hand. Especially with the time in which Tibet was annexed around 1957 the high point of the cold war. If communists were to posses the world’s largest supply of untapped uranium this would be a great threat to US and her allies at least at the time. Turns out there are paper trails supporting CIA involvement in the building of two out of three of Tibet’s airstrips, along with reasonable suspicion to point towards CIA providing weapons to the Tibetans on two instances which resulted in death of around 100 Tibetans and the costing the destruction or damage of many monasteries.