 Under pressure from foreigners, the Qing Dynasty government allowed French Catholic missionaries into Tibetan Buddhist areas in Yunnan province.The Tibetan Lamas had long defied the rule of the Qing authorities and officials, and the Qing dynasty fought against a rebellion of the Lamas around 1905.The Tibetan Buddhist Lamas attacked and murdered Chinese officials, French Roman Catholic Priests from Paris Foreign Missions Society such as Jean-André Soulié or Jules Dubernard, and Catholic converts in the area, in retaliation for the missionaries' success at converting the natives to Catholicism.