Chinese Government Repeats Same Old Lies -- Former Advisor to Party
General Secretary Claims Regime Staged Lhasa Incident
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Former Advisor to Party General Secretary Claims Regime Staged Lhasa
Incident
By Wang Qian and Chang Qing
Sound of Hope
Mar 24, 2008
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Mr. Ruan Ming was a speechwriter for former CCP General Secretary Hu
Yaobang. (The Epoch Times)
The violent riots that the Chinese state-run media have re****ted as
having taken place in Lhasa are not what they seem to be, according to a
former highly placed Chinese Communist Party (CCP) official.
Mr. Ruan Ming claims the CCP carefully staged the incidents in Tibet in
order to force the Dalai Lama to resign and to justify future repression
of the Tibetans.
Since 1997 Ruan has lived in Taiwan, where he has served as a diplomatic
advisor to President Chen Shui-bian. He is also the author, among other
books, of Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire .
Earlier in his life, he worked as the main speechwriter for Mr. Hu
Yaobang, who served as General Secretary of the CCP from 1981-1987 and
was admired by democracy activists as a reformer. Hu's death in 1989 is
said to have sparked the student demonstrations in Beijing of that year.
In an interview with Sound of Hope, Ruan warned international society
that in considering the unrest in Lhasa, it must keep its eyes open and
be aware of the CCP's violent and deceptive nature.
At the heart of the deception in Lhasa was the murder of peaceful monks.
"The CCP carefully staged the unrest in Tibet to deceive the world.
Before the incident, the authorities drove away all foreign re****ters
and even forbade them from going out," according to Ruan.
"The demonstration on March 10 was meant to be peaceful. You can see
from the pictures that the demonstration was all monks," Ruan explained.
"The CCP arrested some of these monks and killed them. The killing
angered some young Tibetans. By March 14, the Tibetans could no longer
stand the killing of innocent monks and protested."
According to Ruan, when the young Tibetans reacted, they fell into the
CCP's trap.
"The CCP seized this op****tunity and took pictures of these Tibetans in
violent actions and sent out officers to do a door-to-door search,
calling on the 'guilty' to surrender themselves."
While Ruan said the CCP meticulously staged the whole thing in Lhasa,
there were things it missed.
"All pictures from inside Lhasa came from the CCP, but the CCP forgot
about the small Tibetan autonomous counties in Gansu, Qinghai, and
Sichuan Provinces. Pictures of the dead bodies of those killed by the
CCP that we saw came from outside of Lhasa. The CCP couldn't have
imagined pictures of its killing would leak out from these small
villages."
Ruan believes the events in Tibet are aimed at influencing world opinion.
"This time the CCP has a more thorough plot with carefully designed
propaganda," said Ruan.
"The Dalai Lama has always proposed a peaceful solution to Tibet issues
and has won the world's recognition. With all that in mind, the CCP has
framed the Dalai Lama for having 'carefully planned and stirred up the
event.'
"This is exactly like how the CCP framed Zhao Ziyang for the Tiananmen
Massacre in 1989 and accused Zhao of 'splitting the Party and sup****ting
unrest.'
"The Dalai Lama had already said he would resign if the unrest
continued. The Dalai Lama is influential globally and if he really
retired, the CCP could gradually push and label the Tibetans as
terrorists like the Xinjiang independence movement.
"This will give the CCP an excuse to ignore Tibetans appeals and to
further repress them."
The CCP has kept out foreign media, because their re****ts might expose
what is really happening there, according to Ruan.
"If the CCP opens up Tibet for foreign media, someone brave has got to
talk. I don't believe there wasn't a single picture taken during the
suppression.
"Why did the CCP need to do a door-to-door search right after the
suppression? They fear there were pictures taken during the suppression
and don't want them to leak out and circulate around.
"What could the CCP be searching for door-to-door if it wasn't for the
pictures? I doubt it was for guns and weapons. It there were only few
violent protestors as they claimed, how come 170 people are said to have
confessed?
"How many monks have the CCP arrested and killed? The international
media should be allowed to go into Tibet to investigate."
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