Seychung Yeshi Dhargay, NORBULINGKA AND CHAKPORI DEFENDER during the 1959 uprising.When the attack started on March 19th 1959 he joined a small group of volunteers from the Norbulingka to support the hundred odd Drapchi soldiers and monks who were defending the Chakpori hill.
These defenders were pounded relentlessly by Chinese artillery and mortar fire, and faced two massed infantry attacks. Seychung recalled firing down from the mountainside with an Enfield rifle at the Chinese, killing at least three PLA soldiers.
He ran out of ammunition and was captured. Nearly every other Tibetan at Chakpori was killed and the entire Medical Schools and Temple blasted to rubble.
He was arrested, tortured and sent to a Laogai labor camp for twenty years.