Full disclosure: Dalai coterie's secessionist attempts doomed to fail
+ - 08:14, March 17, 2008
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90785/6374438.html
Memories of horror were alive again. Rioting that erupted in Lhasa on
Friday resembled two previous riots in 1959 and 1989, only in its
cruelty and always indisputable links to peace-preaching Dalai Lama.
On March 10th, more than 300 monks from the Zhaibung Monastery
ventured into downtown Lhasa. The monks, who were supposedly converted
to peace, were invective and aggressive, and flagrantly confronted
with the security forces.
In the Sera Monastery, ten monks held up flags of the so-called
Tibetan exile government and shouted "Tibetan independence". In the
ensuing days, a few monks chanted independence slogans and challenged
officers who were maintaining order. Lime and boiling water were
poured over those around them, and stones rained down.
In blatant attempts to create sensation, three monks in the Zhaibung
monastery lacerated their bodies with knives and took pictures of one
another, photos that were to be used to blame others for the harm they
inflicted upon themselves, police said.
Affrays turned violent, and losses were grave. The mob on Friday set
off a destruction rampage and spared nothing and nobody along their
way. Rioters set fire to buildings, torched dozens of police cars and
private vehicles and looted banks, schools and shops. Innocent
civilians were stabbed, stoned and scourged. At least 10 died, mostly
from burns.
In the shocking degree of cruelty which local Tibetans said they had
not seen in their whole lives, "brutal" was an understatement of the
true picture, but the word was only reserved for the mob, and not for
the policemen.
Throughout the incident, Lhasa police officers exercised great
restraint. They remained patient, professional and were instructed not
to use force. In humanitarian spirit, they even rescued the malicious
monks who attempted sensation through hurting themselves. But such
restraint was met with even more malice.
Young officers -- fathers, husbands and brothers -- were stoned,
lunged, stabbed and clubbed, like any other innocent victim. Twelve of
them were badly injured, two of them critical.
Such hostility was not "non-violence" as Dalai preached, but what the
"revered" monk practiced. Religious leaders, local Tibetans and other
residents stood out and condemned the riot.
It is obvious that the latest well-planned sabotage in Lhasa was
another bloody exercise of Dalai clique's political conspiracy.
The Dalai coterie fled to India following a failed armed rebellion in
1959, but they were neither willing to say farewell to their privilege
under the feudal serfdom, nor to see a flouri****ng new Tibet.
From the frequent armed assaults along the border areas in the 1960s,
to the bloody Lhasa riot in 1989, the secessionist activities backed
by the Dalai clique never stopped.
In recent years, the Dalai clique has been telling the world that they
has stopped seeking "Tibetan independence". However, it is just
another huge lie.
In an effort to fan up the international community to link the "Tibet
issue" with the Beijing Olympics, he repeatedly preached during his
frequent international trips that the year 2008 is of key im****tance
and the Olympic Games would be the "last chance" for the Tibetans.
How can the Dalai clique justify themselves when the Tibetan Youth
Congress vowed to pursue "Tibet independence" at the cost of blood and
lives in a March 10 statement, which says "they would never give up
the fight for Tibet independence"?
Starting from March 10, the group launched a so-called "Marching to
Tibet" in India. Organizers claimed that once they were blocked
outside China, they would stage protests and instigate followers to
echo them by making troubles inside China.
After the riot broke out in Lhasa, the Dalai clique maintained
real-time contacts through varied channels with the rioters, and
dictated instructions to his hard core devotees and synchronized their
moves, police sources say. Evidence again mounted against the Dalai
coterie's trumpet for "non-violence", exposing them as a deceitful
bunch.
It has been the common understanding of the international community
that Tibet is an inseparable part of China. No country in the world
recognizes the so-called "Tibetan government-in-exile". The series of
farces and sabotages by the Dalai clique were strongly opposed by the
international community.
On March 10, several Tibetan separatists staged a torch lighting
ceremony in front of the ancient archeological site of Olympia of
Greece to protest against the upcoming Games in Beijing. The
much-ridiculed episode was soon over when police drove them out.
The "marching to Tibet" in India became another aborted act as the
crowd were greeted by Indian police awaiting in the midway.
All these facts have come to say and will continue to prove that the
Dalai group's ill-willed attempts to destabilize Tibet, in whatever
forms, will not succeed, since such efforts go against the popular
will of the international community and 2.8 million people in the
Tibet Autonomous Region.
Xinhua's Lhasa Bureau contributes to this re****t
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