April 14, 2008 - No. 55 -
Supplement
China Daily Online --
Commentaries and News Analysis
• Those
Falsely
Accusing Others Only Discredit Themselves - He Zhenhua
• How Can a Nation Under Rule of Law Tolerate
Violent Crimes? - He Zhenhua
• People Announced Dead by Dalai Clique Are
Still Alive
• Chinese
Evidence Proves Who Masterminded Tibet Riots
• Dalai Lama Tells Lies
Again - Ye Xiaowen
• "Tibet Independence" Behind Dalai Clique's
Talk of a "Middle Way"
• The Dalai Lama's "Remarkable Restraint"
• Do You Really Care for Human Rights in Tibet?
- Ding Gang
• Tibetans Have Unprecedented Social, Economic
Rights
Those Falsely Accusing Others
Only Discredit Themselves
- He Zhenhua, China Daily Online, April
8, 2008 -
The Dalai Lama on March 29 blamed Chinese soldiers
who he said
had been disguised as Buddhist monks to create an impression that
Tibetans have incited riots. He made an accusation after a Buddhist
service held in the Gandhi tomb in New Delhi. The basis for this
assertion of his is a photo showing scores
of Chinese Armed Police carrying monk's robes.
Dalai thought he had irrefutable evidence,
but he
underrated the acumen and judgment of people. When the photo was
carried by some newspapers and spread on the web, netizens immediately
identified the flaw, and some of the netizens cited the rumor as absurd.
The French Website of the People's Daily Online
received
on April 2 a letter from netizen Michel Collon, who questioned the
photo about Chinese soldiers disguised as monks. Originally, a foreign
website was the first to carry the photo with the caption: "This is not
an uncommon 'tactical
move' from the Chinese government, as could be seen on the back-cover
of the 2003 annual TCHRD Report (Tibetan Center for Human Rights and
Democracy). This photo was apparently made when monks refused to play
as actors in a movie, so soldiers were ordered to put on robes."
On the for-real side, this picture was taken back in
2003, during
the shooting of a film, because the monks had refused to be extras in
the movie. So they hired the soldiers and here they are getting their
wardrobe. A common practice over there? Whatever. In any case, it has
nothing to do with the recent
TV images of monks taking part in violent attacks against property in
Lhasa.
Asked about this misrepresentation, the webmaster said
that he went
ahead and associated the photo with the text that accused the Chinese
"in order to show the sort of dirty tricks the Chinese used in the
recent riots."
"Then, all kinds of groups just cut the caption
explaining the
photo so people would believe that the picture was recent and showed a
Chinese Army conspiracy. And since then, the photo has gone around the
world."
Rumors are, after all, not facts. Netizens and readers
alike, by
citing a host of evidence, have discovered that the photo showing
Chinese Armed Police passing themselves off as monks was purely a lie.
Since October 2004, human power-driven tricycles in use in the city of
Lhasa have curtains with
stripes of blue, red and green colors, posing the vivid ethnic Tibetan
features, and they remain in use today, noted an official of the Lhasa
tricycle management service company. The curtain of the tricycle in the
photo, however, is in the solely blue color, and so the photo was taken
undoubtedly before October 2004.
The picture was actually taken during a movie shoot in
September
2001, said the person concerned in the photo. The police were acting as
extras in the movie and were handed out costumes for their roles as
monks. Many people become aware that the Armed Police and local
personnel in the photo
were in their summer wear. In contrast, the March 14 incident happened
in the early spring, and it was still quite cold in Tibet, and all
people then wore winter clothing.
"This picture was taken in September 2001," said the
person
concerned in the photo. "The Armed Police in Tibet were taking part in
the movie called 'The Touch.' They were wearing the 1987 style of
uniform at that time. That uniform was changed in May 2006. So this
picture is obviously taken before
May 2006, and it has nothing to do with the March 14 incident.
In fact, it is not so difficult to speak out the truth
and expose
the lie about Armed Police disguised as monks. To frame up the Armed
Police, the Dalai Lama produced a proof, but it cannot hoodwink any
people with a sense of judgment. Perhaps, he has never expected that
such a lie he has taken great
pains to fabricate is turned into a laughing stock overnight. The Dalai
Lama will never succeed with his plot to secede from China, and he has
once
again shown its ugly feature by spreading rumors and telling lies
before the people of the world.
When someone attempts to spread rumors and tell lies to
fool the
world's people, he is just about to come to a dead end. This represents
a general rule and the Dalai Lama is without exception. Those falsely
accusing others only discredit themselves. No one can conceal the truth
under the watchful
eyes of people. To get along with people, one is better to be honest.
Otherwise, the phrase "he will lift a rock only to drop it onto his own
feet," explains that he is bent on making distortions and turning truth
upside down.
How Can a Nation Under Rule of Law
Tolerate Violent Crimes?
- He Zhenhua, China Daily Online, April
7, 2008 -
Scenes in which a handful of rioters resort to violence
against
unarmed locals in Lhasa and some ethnic Tibetan areas since March 14
have stunned people, and filled all those people of a good intention
with indignation, with grief over innocent victims, and a sense of
gratification over the government's move
to settle the incident according to law.
Even when more and more evidence is pooled and the
truth behind
have further revealed or exposed, the Dalai Lama clique continues to
fabricate facts and turn "black into white." The Dalai clique and some
Western media have gone so far as to whitewash the riots of mobs as
"peaceful protests
of people" whereas the actions taken by the Chinese government in
accordance with law was claimed to be "ethnic conflicts."
It is very difficult, however, to translate lies into
the truth, and it is also impossible to cover up violent crimes.
Shortly after the Lhasa riots erupted on March 14,
police seized a
lot of offensive weaponry in some Tibetan Buddhist temples or
Lamaseries where rioters incited or fanned up violence. Among those
weapons seized, there were 178 rifles or guns, 13,013 rounds of
bullets, 359 knives or swords, 3,504
kilograms of explosive, 19,360 detonators and two hand-grenades. Even
the most kind-hearted people or devout men or women can tell what these
weapons have meant and whether the riots in Tibet on March 14 are
"peaceful protest" or "violent crimes"?
Please look at the ensuing figures: 18 innocent
civilians were
killed, and another 382 locals wounded, 58 seriously in the Lhasa riots
on March 14, and thugs set fires at more than 300 sites, impaired 908
malls or booths, seven schools, 120 residences and five hospitals,
assaulted and smashed 10 banking
outlets, and ruined at least 120-room unit housing structures, and
destroyed 84 cars or trucks. Can any country in the world term such
violence as "peaceful protests" and any government brush aside such
violent actions?
Facts have eloquently proven that the "March 14"
violent crimes
have not only harmed the Han people and people of other ethnic
minorities. There are three Tibetans victims involved: One Tibetan
doctor was beaten black and blue simply for the sake of protecting kids
of the Han people, whereas a
Han Chinese woman came to the aid of two ethnic Tibetan kids, and was
beaten up and got crippled. Hence, it is perfectly clear that violent
actions are detrimental to people of all ethnicities. How then can
the Dalai clique say they were "ethnic conflicts"?
Acts of rioters have aroused vehement indignation of
the people of
all ethnicities, and it is the common desire of people across Tibet to
bring them to justice. "No organization or individuals are allowed to
have the privilege of overstepping the Constitution," according to the
Constitution of the People
Republic of China (PRC), and "all are equal before the law."
These law-breakers or rioters committed murder,
looting, arson and
other acts of vandalism against innocent civilians in a serious
violation of the laws of the PRC and resulted in a gravely disruption
to the normal social order of Tibet and, for this, no civilian society
can give in or tolerate, and no responsible
government can sit idle by.
Laws are a precondition for order, the foundation of
civilizations
and a guarantee of people's happy life. If the violation of law is
indulged and violent crimes are forgiven, it would mean to profane
laws, impair the civilization and, still more, to encroach upon the
sacred rights of all ethnical people.
The endeavor to cope with violent crimes in line with law constitutes
the basic norms generally accepted by the contemporary international
community, a baseline held by a civilized society and an essential
requirement of a country under the rule of law for safeguarding the
dignity of its laws.
It has been the consistent acts for the Dalai clique to
take no
heed of laws and look to schemes for succession with the use of
violence. When such moves draw global denunciation, the Dalai clique
began to adjust their strategy and change tactics accordingly. They
bent every effort for a "Middle Way"
solution, shifting from a political worry to a cultural worry to
confuse right and wrong and deceive the general public.
In the current world with a highly-developed
information industry,
and before the history and facts, however, the Dalai clique is simply
"lifting a rock only to drop it on their own feet" with an attempt to
conceal "violence" with the so-called "peace," play with words to hide
their "true colors" or essence
for seccession, and even to achieve their "Tibet independence"
plot by sowing discord among people of various ethnicities. Such an
attempt is predestined to be brought to justice and to be contemned by
the people and the history alike.
People Announced Dead by Dalai Clique Are Still Alive
- China Daily Online, April 7, 2008 -
At least five people on the death roll given by the
Dalai Lama clique after riots in Lhasa and other ethnic Tibetan areas
last month have been proven alive or non-existent, police said on
Sunday after investigation.
The Dalai clique on March 25 released the "names and
details of 40 identified people" who "died" in the riots. However, the
Lhasa police bureau found five persons on the list with detailed
residences were still alive or did not exist at all.
The other 35 people, whom the clique failed to give
a detailed place of residence but just roughly mentioned their place of
residence as
"Lhasa, Tibet" or "Aba, Sichuan Province," were impossible to be
located, the police said.
The Dalai clique announced the death of a 31-year-old
Lobsang Tsepel in Sera Monastery. However, the police investigation
found the monk, 36, was still in the temple.
The investigation said there were altogether 12 people
named Ngodup in Tibet University, and all of them were at work, while
the Dalai clique said a 28-year-old was killed.
A Lobsang Doma in Garu Nunnery was 39 and alive, not 23
and dead as said by the Dalai clique.
There was not a person named Rigzin Choenyi in the
Shugseb Nunnery of Lhasa, while the nunnery has two people whose names
included the Rigzin part but were both alive.
There was not a person named Ngawang Thekchen in
Taklung Drak Monastery, according to the investigation.
The Dalai clique's death roll, however, did not include
the 18 civilians and one police officer in Lhasa who were killed by
mobs in the riot in March 14, the Lhasa police bureau said.
The list is totally fake and meant to conceal the
violence masterminded by the Dalai clique, the bureau added.
The death toll released from the northern India hilltop
town Dharamsala, however, has been ever so confusing. It varied
between 99 and "hundreds" for two weeks before the "government in
exile"
decided to put it somewhere between 135 and 140.
Oeser, a deputy to the national legislature and also
director of the Tibet Autonomous Regional Department of Supervision,
said "the death tolls were self-contradictory and purely fabricated.
The clique tried to spread fallacies to deceive people."
China's Ministry of Public Security said on Tuesday
that it had gathered sufficient evidences, including connections
between rioters and the Dalai clique, showing that March 14 riots in
Lhasa were not isolated or accidental but was part of the "Tibetan
People's Uprising Movement" plotted by the Dalai
clique.
Solid facts showed that the unrest in Lhasa was
organized, premeditated, masterminded and instigated by the Dalai
clique and its "Tibet independence" forces, the ministry said.
The unrest in Lhasa, involving beating, smashing,
ransacking and arson, spread to Sichuan and Gansu Provinces, leaving
shops looted, government offices damaged, as well as deaths and
injuries.
Chinese Evidence Proves
Who Masterminded Tibet Riots
- China Daily Online, April 2, 2008 -
China's Ministry of Public Security said on April 1 that
it had gathered sufficient evidence showing that the March 14 riots in
Lhasa were not isolated or accidental but part of the "Tibetan People's
Uprising Movement" plotted by the clique of the Dalai Lama. The report
posted by China Daily Online
follows:
Solid facts showed that the unrest in Lhasa, the
capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, was organized,
premeditated, masterminded and instigated by the Dalai clique and its
"Tibet independence" forces, the ministry said.
"No matter what disguise they use, the irrefutable
facts cannot be changed," it said.
How the "Movement" Started
Beijing will host the 29th Summer Olympic Games in 2008,
which also marks the 30th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up.
The international sporting event has drawn worldwide
attention, including from the Dalai clique, which has been in exile for
more than 40 years, the ministry said.
The Dalai clique believed that this would be "the last
chance" for them and decided to launch the "Tibetan People's Uprising
Movement" within and outside China, attempting to "create a crisis in
China through awakening and coordinating the maneuver in Tibet," the
ministry said.
The ministry listed a series of recent events that
showed the actions that the Dalai clique had taken to support the
"Tibetan People's Uprising Movement":
- In May 2007, the clique held the "Fifth International
Conference of Tibet Support Groups" in Brussels, which Samdhong, the
"prime minister" of the "Tibetan government-in-exile," attended. The
clique adopted a "strategic plan" at the conference and decided to
launch activities opposing the Beijing
Olympics.
- Subsequently, the "Tibet independence" forces in the
United States proposed the idea of the "Tibetan People's Uprising
Movement." Senior officials of the Dalai clique studied and approved
the plan. They believed that 2008 would be their last chance to achieve
"Tibet independence" and decided to
use the "favorable opportunity" before the Olympics to stage sabotage
activities in the Tibetan-inhabited areas in China.
- Late last year, several "Tibetan independence"
secessionist organizations, including the "Tibetan Youth Congress," the
"Tibetan Women's Association" and "Students for a Free Tibet," met in
India, where they agreed on the demands to be made to the Chinese
government .
These included: "The Dalai Lama should be allowed to
return to Tibet, all Chinese should leave Tibet and release all the
political prisoners."
They said that if the Chinese government failed to meet
their demands, they would launch the "Tibetan People's Uprising
Movement" within and outside China, and they would also set up a
contact network between Tibetans in exile and Tibetans in China to
stage coordinated activities in China.
- On Jan. 4 and 25, seven "Tibet independence"
organizations, including the "Tibetan Youth Congress," the "Tibetan
Women's Association," "Students for a Free Tibet," the "Gu-Chu-Sum
Movement of Tibet," the "National Democratic Party of Tibet," the
"International Tibet Support Network" and
the "Tibetan Writers Organization," held press conferences in New
Delhi, where they issued the so-called "Declaration of Tibetan People's
Uprising Movement" and then posted it on the Internet.
In the so-called "declaration," they turned a blind eye
to the fact that Tibet has since ancient times been a part of the
Chinese territory, claiming that "Tibet and China are two different
countries" and "China is not qualified to host the Olympic Games
without resolving the Tibet issue."
They also announced that they would launch a massive,
ongoing "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" from March 10, in an
attempt to make it the "great turning point in the history of Tibet's
fight for freedom."
To implement the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement,"
the "Tibetan Youth Congress" and other "Tibet independence"
organizations held two training classes on how to carry out violent,
terrorist activities.
- From Feb. 3-10, the Dalai Lama attended religious
activities in a temple in India and fanned sentiment among the
believers by claiming that "although the Tibetan people are under the
rule of the Communist Party of China, their hearts are on the other
side."
The Dalai clique drew up an "action plan" for the
"Tibetan People's Uprising Movement": starting the "Peaceful March to
Tibet" overseas from March 10; asking Tibetans around the world,
including those in Tibet, to take to the streets on March 10; launching
such activities as a "Freedom Torch Relay,"
"Global Torch Relay" and "Global Action Day"; organizing violent
attacks on various Chinese embassies and staging hunger strikes and
massive protests.
"The 'Tibetan People's Uprising Movement' plotted by
the Dalai clique is intended to sabotage the peaceful, stable and
unified social situation in China and use the Olympic Games to put
pressure on the Chinese government, thus achieving their political
aims," a spokesman with the Ministry of Public
Security said.
"The word 'uprising' means to overthrow the present
regime through armed force and violence. So I'm wondering, is there any
country that allows such an 'uprising' against the central government?
Is there any country that tolerates such activities wantonly
instigating the subversion of a state regime?"
he said.
Dalai Clique's Undeniable Ties with the Riots
"Tibet independence" forces have carried out a series of
activities directed and masterminded by the Dalai clique since March 10.
On March 10, the Dalai clique held a rally in
Dharamsala, India to commemorate the anniversary of the so-called
"Tibet uprising" in 1959. Dalai, Samdhong and other important figures
in the clique spoke at the rally.
Speaking on the occasion, the 14th Dalai Lama said "the
repression of the Tibetans in China over the past few years is
unprecedented."
Trainers taught the members of "Students for a Free
Tibet (SFT)" that the Dalai Lama was the spiritual leader, inspirer and
guide of the uprising.
Immediately after the Lhasa riots, the Dalai Lama said
on March14: "These protests are a manifestation of the deep-rooted
resentment of the Tibetan people under the present governance."
On March 16, the Dalai Lama told a press conference:
"Whether intentionally or unintentionally, somewhere cultural genocide
is taking place" and that "The Chinese military is determined to crush,
and the Tibetan side is determined to resist."
In late March, the Dalai Lama gathered together leaders
of the "Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC)," "Tibetan Women's Association
(TWA)" and SFT to discuss how to deal with the situation in Tibet.
After the Lhasa riots, Samdhong, the "prime minister" of
the "Tibetan government-in-exile," called an emergency meeting to
research how to expand the "revolution results."
The meeting demanded full support for the riots. The
"ministry of security," "ministry of religion and culture," "foreign
affairs and press ministry" and "the ministry of finance" all had their
assignments.
In mid-March, the Dalai clique set up a seven-member
"Tibet unity committee" headed by Gama Qoinpe, "speaker of the Assembly
of Tibetan People's Deputies," to command and coordinate the "uprising
movement" worldwide.
On March 22, the "Tibetan government-in-exile" issued a
declaration to all Tibetans in the world, claiming that "the peaceful
uprising in Tibet is very great, glorious with historic significance,
and fully demonstrates the spirit and courage of the Tibetan ethnic
group" and that "we Tibetans should act
in light of the instructions of our great political and religious
leader the Dalai Lama for the sake of our due happiness."
Special funds were prepared by the "ministry of
security" of the Dalai clique for carrying out the "Tibetan People's
Uprising Movement" in the Tibetan-inhabited areas in China.
On March 11, the "ministry of security" held a small
celebration and gave awards to the organizers of the March 10 riots. An
"official" said that the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" had only
begun and further activities would be conducted.
On March 14, the "government-in-exile" held a conference
in which various departments participated and ordered the "ministry of
security" to start more conflicts in areas inhabited by Tibetans.
On March 17, the Dalai clique established an emergency
high-level committee to transfer the principals behind the Lhasa riots
to Dharamsala.
The committee decided that open riots and conflicts
should cease and give way to underground "religious activities" to keep
on confronting the Chinese government.
This was exactly the so-called plan of the "Uprising
Day" plotted by the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" and it was
carried out exactly in line with that plan, the spokesman said.
Solid evidence proves Dalai's claim that he had not
participated nor supported any violent and secession activities is
nothing but a lie, the spokesman said.
Rioters' Connections to Dalai Clique
The Ministry of Public Security revealed sufficient
evidence on April 1 that showed that the March 14 Lhasa violence was
part of the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" plotted by the Dalai
Lama clique.
Police officers have also found copies of a "Declaration
of Tibetan People's Uprising Movement"; copies of the Dalai Lama's
speech on March 10; pictures of the clique's members undertaking
secessionist activities and computers used to contact officials of the
clique's "government in exile" in the residence
of a person who allegedly took part in the riots.
The suspect was arrested on March 15 on charges of
accepting the clique's orders and undertaking secessionist activities,
including beating, smashing, looting and arson, in Lhasa on March 14.
Evidence showed that the suspect was a core member of
the rioters who have been connected to the Dalai clique since
November2006 with the goal of carrying out the following activities:
- The suspect cultivated 12 intelligence agents and
established a tight underground intelligence network in Tibet to
conduct secessionist activities, prompted by the official from the
"security ministry" of the Dalai clique.
- The agents used code words to contact each other in
the intelligence network, such as calling the Dalai Lama "Uncle" and
the Tibetan flag a "skirt," with clergy smuggled into Tibet being
called "guests."
- The suspect transmitted information 36 times to an
official of the clique via the Internet. The information that he had
collected from March 2007 to March 2008 domestically included domestic
clerics' so-called "rejection of criticism of the Dalai Lama," and the
so-called "killing of wild animals and
ecological destruction" in Tibet.
- The suspect also received information about the Dalai
Lama's activities from the Dalai clique, produced disks and distributed
these in Tibet.
The ministry revealed that the suspect and his
intelligence network also spread propaganda supporting the Dalai clique
and disputing China's religious policies in Tibetan monasteries.
After the Lhasa riot on March 14, agents in Tibet and
officials of the clique had more frequent contacts. The official sent
the "Declaration of Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" to the suspect,
who later made copies of it and distributed it in Lhasa. The suspect
also mobilized agents in the intelligence
network to collect information and report to the Dalai clique.
The suspect who directly organized and participated in
the Lhasa riot on March 14 has confessed to all of the accusations
above.
Police officers have also arrested several persons who
were suspected of participating in the riot. Preliminary police
investigations found the proof of these activities and communication
between the suspects and officials of the Dalai clique.
The suspect, Ngagwang Namgyi, admitted that he has
undertaken secessionist activities for nearly 20 years. Ngagwang Namgyi
was legally punished in 1989 as a monk in Lhasa's Zhebung Monastery for
participating in a riot in the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region
that year.
"I owned five groceries in Doilungdeqen (a county on the
outskirts of Lhasa) and six of the employees have criminal records. We
have undertaken secessionist activities," said Ngagwang Namgyi, against
whom testimony was given by other suspects.
The police have found that the Internet became an
important channel for the Dalai clique to release its orders, many
parts of the "Declaration of Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" and
action plans.
The Dalai clique has found new ways to contact
secessionists in Tibet. They would make appointments through telephone
and Internet. At the appointed time, they would listen to Tibetan
language programs on the Voice of America, through which they convey
instructions from overseas and report the latest
developments inside China.
To spread the impact of the riots, backbones of the
Dalai clique stole into China to spread rumors. They paid people to
take
part in the rioting and even had a policy of "more job, more pay."
"About 50 of us smashed several stores in Xuexin village
on the afternoon of March 15, and I got paid several hundreds of yuan,"
said Zhoi'ma, from the Nyingchi prefecture of Tibet.
Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan province
is regarded by the Dalai clique as a "model area" for secessionist
activities.
Since the outbreak of violence, overseas separatist
forces had frequently called local contacts in Garze, urging them to
"make things bigger."
Overseas separatists have been trying hard disseminate
reactionary books, discs and pictures in Garze recently.
Since mid-February, Chengdu Customs had seized large
quantities of materials advocating the independence of Tibet, brought
in from India to local monasteries and villages.
One of the Tibetan separatist organizations -- the
"Tibetan Youth Congress" -- recently issued orders to conduct long-term
guerrilla warfare in Garze.
Details of the riots show that they were well-planned in
advance.
During the March 14 Lhasa riots, all those stores
hanging hadas [a
traditional scarf -- ed.] outside were spared.
In the riots which took place in Xiahe county of Gansu
province on March 14 and March 15, there were core members wearing
black bands on their heads or arms in almost all the demonstrations.
Intelligence shows that for the next move, the "Tibet
independence" separatist forces will send death squads to break into
the territory by force, the spokesman said.
He said that he hoped people worldwide would remain
vigilant against the activities organized by the Dalai clique and the
"Tibet Independence" separatists.
"We firmly believe that lies can never cover up the
truth, and that facts will eventually expose the true intention of the
Dalai clique to split the country," he said.
Dalai Lama Tells Lies Again
- Ye Xiaowen*, China Daily Online, April
1, 2008 -
The 14th Dalai Lama has been quite busy recently, giving
speeches
everywhere with whatever words or remarks occurring to him and, of
course, with a lot of sheer lies.
"I guarantee to the Han Chinese countrymen that I
definitely do not
attempt to separate (secede) Tibet," he said. On April 8, 2007,
however, the same Dalai told an Indian TV station that Tibet was a fait
accompli independent state about half a century ago.
He said he "absolutely does not have a scheme to create
contradictions between Tibetans and Han Chinese." It was nevertheless
the same Dalai Lama, who said in a statement of March 10 this year that
"the Tibetans are reduced to an insignificant minority in their own
country and, as a consequence,
Tibetans are increasingly being assimilated quietly into the large
Chinese population."
Moreover, in an interview with Newsweek
magazine of the
U.S. on March 25, this year the Dalai Lama said he had met some
better-off Tibetans, who are quite affluent and have good houses, but
they felt a certain type of discrimination against them, which was
beyond description.
Furthermore, referring to the series of protests since
March 10,
the Dalai said the Chinese government unexpectedly accused him of
instigating all the protests since March 10. But why could all these
things
occur after March 10 in the first place? It is precisely the same
Dalai Lama who has repeatedly
said he appreciates from the bottom of his heart and takes pride for
the faith, courage and resolve of people inside Tibet. Prior to making
this remark, he received the so-called Tibet-Qinghai Society and other
organizations to suggest his ideas and issue hinted orders in indirect
words. As he had expected, the so-called
Tibet-Qinghai Society in its March 10 statement claimed that they were
resolved to resume the independence of Tibet even at the cost of blood
and lives.
So, the Dalai Lama appreciates such violence as
beating, smashing,
looting and arson, and lighting up flames over Lhasa, the capital city
of China's Tibetan autonomous region on March 14, and the tragedy of a
dozen innocent locals who were either burnt alive, beheaded or died of
suffocation, or of
beaten-up police patrols. On that very day of riot, Dalai said he held
in esteem the desires of Tibetans in what they did and would not like
to let them halt.
After people vehemently denounced the violence, the
Dalai Lama said
on March 18 he would resign if the situation deteriorates. Then, he led
an "inter-faith prayer meeting in remembrance of Tibetans who lost
their lives."
Meanwhile, the Dalai Lama said ironically he had
supported China's
right to conduct the Olympic games from the very beginning, and he
noted that he still kept to this stance. It was the same Dalai,
however, who claimed time and again on his tour of the European nations
and the United States last
year that 2008 was a crucial year, as the Beijing Olympics perhaps
offered the last chance for Tibetans, and appealed to the nations
concerned to link the "Tibetan issue" with the Beijing Olympics, and
urged supporters to take to the streets in promoting Tibetans' appeals
during the games period.
With these contradictory remarks, the Dalai Lama has
become uneasy
and nervous himself with an ill, guilty conscience. Consequently, he
preached again: As a Buddhist monk himself, he assured people that his
desire was "sincere" and his motivation "earnest." Hence, we cannot but
ask how the Dalai
Lama abides by commandments of the Buddhist religion as it attached
utmost importance to "four religious prohibitions," namely, the
religious taboos against taking up a knife, stealing, engaging in
pornography and telling lies. Can he still be deemed a "Buddhist monk"?
The only answer people can now give is
that the "Dalai Lama has told lies again."
"Tibet Independence" Behind Dalai Clique's
Talk of a "Middle Way"
- China Daily Online, March 31, 2008 -
A Tibetologist on March 30 refuted the "middle way"
approach
repeatedly advocated by the Dalai Lama since the 1980s, saying that
what the Dalai clique really wants is still "Tibet independence."
"Greater Tibet" and "high-level autonomy" are the core
contents of
the "middle way" claims, but they are neither reasonable nor
acceptable, said Zhu Xiaoming, of the Beijing-based China Tibetology
Research Center.
By "Greater Tibet," the Dalai clique wants not only the
present
Tibet Autonomous Region, but also the entire region of the adjacent
Qinghai Province and parts of Gansu, Sichuan, Yunnan provinces and
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Theses areas altogether occupy up to 2.4 million square
kilometers, or about a quarter of Chinese territory.
"The so-called 'Greater Tibet' has no historical
foundation, no
matter what perspective you look at it from, administrative division,
religion or ethnic groups," Zhu said.
There has never been such a "Greater Tibet" region
governed by the
local government of Tibet or the Dalai Lama in history, even before
1959, he said.
"Besides, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is actually a
multi-ethnic
region. Apart from Tibetans, there are more than 10 ethnic groups
living on the plateau for generations, such as Han, Hui, Mongolian, Tu,
Monba and Lhoba," he said.
The expert pointed out that by preaching "Greater
Tibet," the Dalai
clique wants to draw together his followers from regions other than
Tibet and win support, sympathy in the world to pave the way for
secession -- many people in the world do not know that various other
ethnic groups are living on
the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in addition to Tibetans.
"The real purpose for the Dalai clique to give up
saying 'Tibet
independence' but advocate 'Greater Tibet' is to shift their
secessionist activities from abroad to home and regain their power in
religion and politics in Tibet," Zhu said.
By "high-level autonomy," he said, what the Dalai
clique really
wants is to deny China's system of people's congresses and system of
regional ethnic autonomy, but restore theocracy in Tibet, featuring the
dictatorship by monks and the nobility.
In that society, more than 90 percent of the means of
production,
such as farmland, pasture, livestock and tools, are controlled by
officials, the nobility and senior monks, while the people, or the
serf, have nothing, he said.
"The feudal serfdom regime headed by the Dalai Lama has
been
replaced by the democratic government established by the Tibetan people
themselves for a long time. The destiny and future of Tibet will no
longer be decided by the Dalai clique, but by the whole of the Chinese
people including the
Tibetan people," Zhu said.
The Dalai Lama's "Remarkable Restraint"
- China Daily Online, March 26, 2008 -
After violence erupted in Lhasa and other Tibetan towns
in China,
the Dalai Lama, who has called himself an "innocent monk," repeatedly
called on for "non-violence" and "dialogue" with the Chinese government
and said he would "resign as leader of Tibet's exiles if there are more
violent anti-Chinese protests."
There is the pacifist image of a man with "remarkable
restraint,"
as a foreign editorial said. Not everyone in China is convinced that
this is the reality.
Since he fled to India in 1959, the Dalai Lama has
advocated "Tibetan Independence."
He has delivered speeches every March 10 to commemorate
a rebellion
in 1959. From 1960 to 1977, he mentioned Tibet as independent --
historically and culturally -- in 12 of these annual addresses.
In the late 1970s, western countries began improving
relations with
China. The Dalai Lama then embarked upon a "middle course" -- greater
autonomy in "Greater Tibet" featuring his five-point peace plan
presented to members of the U.S. Congress, and his seven-point
Strasbourg proposal.
His "Greater Tibet" covers not only the present Tibet
Autonomous
Region but also the adjacent Qinghai Province, the southern part of
Gansu Province, the western part of Sichuan Province and the
northwestern part of Yunnan Province, which takes up about a quarter of
China's territory.
This so-called "Greater Tibet" never existed, said
experts.
"Tibet has been part of China since the Yuan Dynasty in
the 13th
century," said Ngagwang Cering, head of the institute of contemporary
studies of the Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences. According to this
researcher, the term "Tibet Independence" came about only some 20 years
after the British
invasion of the area in 1904.
"An Anglophile force in Tibet stood out after the
invasion," said Xu
Tiebing, professor with the International Communications College of the
Communication University of China, who cited this as the beginning of
the Tibetan issue.
Therefore, "Greater Tibet" doesn't reflect any
historical division,
nor does it fit the living patterns of the Chinese people, said Gyaidam
Lodain Puncog with the China Tibetology Research Center.
"Chinese ethnic minorities congregate in different
regions, where,
however, they are mixed with the Han," said the professor.
"With such a proposition, the Dalai Lama's real
intention is to
eliminate the rule of the Communist Party of China," he said.
The intention was shown in remarks of the Dalai Lama's
younger brother and follower, Tendzin Choegyal.
During an interview by French reporter Pierre-Antoine
Donnet,
Tendzin Choegyal said: "We will first seek autonomy, and then run the
Chinese out! Just like Marcos was run out of the Philippines, and the
British were run out of India! We are thinking of the world, of coming
generations. Autonomy
or self-rule is the start."
The Dalai Lama's elder brother, Gyalo Thondup,
explained greater
autonomy like this: "Twenty years after greater autonomy, a referendum
is to be held in the 'Greater Tibet' region to push Tibet from
'semi-independence' to independence."
The Dalai Lama's long-cherished dream for independence
has been
seen even by foreign politicians. J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S.
Ambassador to China, said in the Human Rights Situation of the Tibetan
People on Oct. 14 1987 that "the Administration disavows any support
for the Dalai Lama's five-point
program," as "neither the United States nor any other member of the
United Nations recognizes or has ever recognized Tibet as a sovereign
state independent of China."
But the Dalai Lama continued his association with some
western countries and criticized China and development in Tibet.
"With the help of international forces, he wants to
pressure the
Chinese government and force it give in, so as to achieve his goal,"
said Zhou Yuan, research fellow with the China Tibetology Research
Center.
Sometimes, he takes advantage of a favorable
international
atmosphere, said Zhou, who cited the period from 1989 to 1993 when
drastic changes took place in eastern Europe and the former Soviet
Union, the latter of which broke up. During this period, the word
"independence" reappeared in the annual
March 10 speech.
Therefore, the professor said, the Dalai Lama's appeal
for dialogue
with the Chinese government has never been and may never be sincere.
As Premier Wen Jiabao pointed out at a press conference
earlier
this month, the door of dialogue remains open to the Dalai Lama, so
long as he gives up "Tibet Independence" and recognizes Tibet and
Taiwan as inalienable parts of the Chinese territory.
"We need to watch what the Dalai Lama does. It is up to
his actions," Wen said.
Do You Really Care for Human Rights in Tibet?
- Ding Gang, People's Daily Online, March
26, 2008-
A few Westerners often incline to pass themselves off as
leaders of
the "moral authority" but, as a matter of fact, they have harbored a
very deep prejudice in their intrinsic sub-consciousness. It seems that
it is only up to them to judge if things on earth are correct or
incorrect, right or wrong.
In the wake of recent grave violence in Lhasa, the
capital of
China's Tibet autonomous region, and some other ethnic Tibetan areas
with hallmarks of beating, smashing, looting and setting fire to
properties, a leading U.S. official has gone to see the Dalai Lama in
Dharmsala, India. Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House claimed that
she will work to safeguard "moral authority" and ask the international
community to impose punitive measures upon China. Furthermore, she
asserted that she will send a team of independent investigators to
China to look into the relevant charges. Like charges against China's
so-called human rights issue, some Western
figures also use a double standard to term the riots in Tibet as
"peaceful protests," with some of them even framing the so-called
"crackdown" charges against the Chinese government.
If they really concern themselves with the Tibetan
people and the
development of Tibet, these Western personages should first of all be
acquainted with the true situation there instead of placing themselves
in a "commanding moral height" to gesticulate profusely in haste.
In fact, it is not so hard to get to know the true
situation in
Tibet. Some Western media have done relatively objective reportages of
recent riots in Tibet. For instance, the Toronto Star of
Canada has carried lengthy stories about detailed accounts given by
Canadian tourists who had been
in Lhasa on atrocities committed by rioters in Lhasa, Tibet. A
19-year-old tourist, Kenwood, personally witnessed how rioters had
assaulted a young motorbike rider and beat him to death.
Moreover, the British Times newspaper in an
article of
March 19 reported that tourists who had left Tibet were still
frightened and worried about riots and particularly with the scene of a
horde of "yelling thugs" who pelted passing-by pedestrians with rocks.
Do certain Western figures really want to safeguard
human rights
and ethics? May we ask what democratic nation under the rule of law on
earth can tolerate the violence of killing innocent people in broad
daylight, or refers to the beating, smashing, looting and setting fire
to properties as "peaceful
protests"?
Evidence proves this was organized, premeditated and
masterminded
by incited by the Dalai clique and it was created under the collusion
of Tibet independence separatist forces inside and outside the border.
Riots are after all riots and, on no account can they be prettified or
whitewashed as "peaceful
protests" as embellished by some Western figures.
Tibet's stability is closely related to the stability
of China, and
the human rights for the Tibetans constitute a component part of
China's overall human rights issue. Provided rioters are permitted to
succeed with their scheme, there would be neither stability nor human
rights for the Tibetan people, and
it means simply a sabotage of China's human rights. With the back-up to
such riots as beatings, smashing and looting, there will be absolutely
"no moral authority" to talk about and it just means an opposition to
the 1.3 billion people in China.
For a long period of time, certain Western figures have
posed
themseles as concerned with the development and human rights issues in
Tibet, and they often offer views with regard to the Tibetan culture
and environment. They, nevertheless, turn a blind eye to schools,
hospitals and railways built by
the central Government for Tibetans and other measures it has taken to
help Tibetans with their economic development. Meanwhile, they also
assert such measures as a "sabotage" to the Tibetan culture.
The recent riots in Tibet once again disclose that what
they care
for is nothing but their political concept, that is, how to use their
concept to smear or vilify China's development and, as for the interest
of Tibetans, it merely serves as a tool to achieve their political aim.
In so doing, they have, as a matter
of course, enabled us to see what is in their mind, and also taught us
what is meant by "objectivity and fairness" Western media has often
preached as well as the hypocritical feature of the so-called moral
authority.
Tibetans Have Unprecedented Social, Economic Rights
- China Daily Online, April 2, 2008 -
Some of the classrooms of the Lhasa No. 2 Middle School
were torched
during the March 14 riot, but students were seen studying the Tibetan
language on Tuesday in laboratories.
Schoolmaster Degyi Zhoigar said that 85 percent of the
students are
Tibetan and for them, Tibetan language is a compulsory subject. More
than 90 percent of the teachers are Tibetan.
Students take seven 40-minute Tibetan language classes
each week,
along with five classes each of Chinese, mathematics and English, she
said.
"Textbooks and notebooks were burned during the
violence, so we
have consolidated classes and asked students to share textbooks, making
sure they can go on with their studies," she said.
Statistics show that 122 textbooks in the Tibetan
language,
covering 16 subjects at levels from primary school to senior middle
school, have been published in recent years.
Cering Gyaibo, head of the religion research institute
of the
Tibetan Academy of Social Sciences, told Xinhua that in terms of
Tibetan language use, cultural heritage protection, religious freedom,
and economic and social development, the "Tibetan people are enjoying
an unprecedented range of human
rights."
He said that Tibet now has more than 1,700 religious
sites for
Tibetan Buddhism. Most believers have scripture halls or Buddha statue
niches at home. Lhasa, capital of the southwestern Tibet Autonomous
Region, receives more than 1 million Buddhist visitors annually.
Tibetan Buddhists celebrate the "Saga Dawa" Festival
every year,
which starts from the first day of April under the Tibetan calendar and
lasts for a month. During the festival, Buddhists honor the memory of
Sakyamuni by walking with prayer wheels, burning joss sticks and eating
vegetarian meals.
"There has been a record number of Buddhists walking
with prayer wheels during the festival in recent years," he said.
The central government has allocated more than 700
million yuan (97
million U.S. dollars) since 1980 to maintain 1,400 monasteries and
cultural relics.
Economic development has also improved Tibetans' living
standards.
Xerab Nyi'ma, the vice president of the Central
University for
Nationalities and himself a Tibetan, said that as recently as the first
half of the 20th century, Tibet remained a society of feudal serfdom
under theocracy, one even darker and more backward than medieval
Europe.
The ecclesiastical and secular serf owners, though
accounting for
less than 5 percent of the population of Tibet, controlled the personal
freedom of the serfs and slaves who made up more than 95 percent of the
population of Tibet. Owners sold, mortgaged and bartered serfs as just
one more kind of
property, he said.
A document in the Tibet Autonomous Region Archives,
written in
1949, states that three monks, who were slaves for upper-class monks,
escaped from Sera Monastery due to oppression. They were caught and
thrown into prison with their eyes being gouged and noses cut off.
Another document recorded that in the past, goldsmiths,
silversmiths, blacksmiths and butchers were considered lower-class
people, who were not allowed to work for the government or marry
upper-class people.
According to statistics, about 90 percent of the people
in Tibet didn't have their own houses in 1950.
In 2006, the regional government launched a program to
build homes
for local farming and herding households. More than 570,000 people have
since moved into new residences and regional government spending has
totaled 1.3 billion yuan.
The per capita net income of farmers and herdsmen in
Tibet posted
double-digit growth for a fifth consecutive year and reached 2,788 yuan
in 2007, up 83.8 percent over 2002.
A total of 8.22 billion yuan was allocated for
education in Tibet
in the past five years. More than 95 percent of school-age children now
have access to primary education, in sharp contrast with the figure
that 95 percent of Tibetans were illiterate before the Democratic
Reform of Tibet in 1959.
According to the provincial health department, 100
percent of
farmers and herders, who account for 80 percent of the region's
population, are covered by the medicare system and receive free medical
care.
Xerab Nyi'ma said that the implementation of the system
of regional
ethnic autonomy in Tibet also helped protect human rights.
For example, traditional Tibetan festivals, including
the Tibetan
New Year and the Shoton Festival, are legal holidays in the autonomous
region.
People in Tibet work 35 hours a week, five hours less
than the national legal working hours.
Xerab Nyi'ma said, during the March 14 riot, the
government showed
restraint, provided free medical treatment to the injured, and paid
compensation to the victims. All of these showed that the Chinese
government attaches great importance to human rights.
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