China tells Dalai Lama to ‘put aside illusions’ about talks
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CHINA urged the Dalai Lama to “put aside his illusions” about talks on Tibet’s future yesterday and accused him of insincerity and covertly pushing for independence, rather than autonomy.
The Dalai Lama fled into exile in India in 1959 after an abortive armed rebellion.
A white paper issued by the State Council’s information office said that having failed to use violence to achieve their goals, the Dalai Lama and his supporters had little understanding of modern Tibet and a sentimental attachment to the old theocratic feudal serfdom.
“The only sensible alternative is for the Dalai Lama and his supporters to accept that Tibet has been part of China since antiquity, to abandon their goals of dividing China and seeking independence for Tibet,” the white paper said.
“The central government hopes that the Dalai Lama will put aside his illusions in his remaining years and face up to reality,” it added.
“Any negotiations will be limited to seeking solutions for the Dalai Lama to completely abandon separatist claims and activities and gain the forgiveness of the central government and the Chinese people, and to working out what he will do with the rest of his life,” it said.
“As the political status and system of Tibet is stipulated by the Chinese Constitution and laws, the ‘Tibet issue’ and ‘a high degree of autonomy’ are not up for discussion,” it said.
The white paper also accused the Dalai Lama of encouraging “deluded” lamas and lay followers to engage in self-immolation.
In August 2011, the so-called Tibetan government-in-exile announced a new commitment to non-violence, the white paper said.
“Subsequently, the Dalai group leadership began to incite Tibetan lamas and lay followers inside China to engage in acts of self-immolation, leading to a series of such incidents in a number of regions.”
On May 29, 2012, at a Tibetan Youth Congress candlelight rally to commemorate Tibetans who had conducted self-immolation, its head claimed: “Tibetan independence will neither fall from the sky nor grow from Earth; rather it relies on our efforts and action and needs sacrifice,” according to the white paper.
The Dalai group has described self-immolation as the highest form of non-violence, hailing its unfortunate victims as “national heroes,” building memorials and raising special funds for them, it said.
For a period, the Dalai group vigorously preached that “self-immolation does not go against Buddhist doctrine” and that “self-immolation is martyrdom and Bodhisattva deeds,” duping Buddhist believers in Tibet — particularly young people — and setting them on a path of ruin, it said.
“The inevitable result was a sudden increase in self-immolations.”
Investigations by China’s public security organs into incidents of self-immolation revealed that they were being manipulated and instigated at the highest level by the Dalai group, the white paper said.
The Dalai group had also released a self-immolation guide on the Internet — an instruction manual to incite Tibetans residing within China to burn themselves, it said.
“Inflicting self-immolation in public is itself an act of violence, intended to create an atmosphere of terror and horror.”
Safeguarding rights
In order to safeguard people’s rights and defend the dignity of the law, it said that the Chinese government had taken a series of measures to stop self-immolation, save innocent lives, and bring the criminals involved to justice in accordance with the law.
According to the white paper, the Dalai Lama group has had armed support from the United States Central Intelligence Agency.
According to US archives, the Dalai Lama first established contacts with the US government in 1951 after the peaceful liberation of Tibet, it said.
During the armed rebellion in Tibet, the white paper said that the CIA not only sent agents to help the Dalai Lama to flee, but had also purposefully trained militants to support his forces and airdropped a large quantity of weaponry.
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