Was this suspect ever produced in person and questioned by any outside
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> AN INSIDER'S CONFESSION
>
> An unidentified suspect who was connected with the Lhasa violence has
> confessed to the police that the "security department" of the "Tibetan
> government-in-exile" asked him to distribute leaflets promoting the so-
> called "Tibetan people's uprising" to civilians and monks in Tibet,
> according to the article.
>
> "The violence on March 14 was related to the instigation of the
> 'security department' of the 'Tibetan government-in-exile'," the
> suspect said.
>
> "To protect myself, (the Dalai clique) asked me not to participate in
> the demonstrations in person, just to take charge of stirring people
> up," the suspect said.
>
> "The beating, sma****ng, looting and burning were by no means peaceful
> demonstrations and the deeds were inhuman," the suspect admitted. "If
> they (the Dalai clique) wanted to follow the non-violent 'middle way',
> such violence should have never happened."
>
> On the same day that mobs attacked innocent Lhasa civilians, a closed-
> door meeting was held by the Dalai Lama clique on how to build on the
> "achievements," the article said.
>
> FOLLOW-UP PLOTS
>
> The meeting finally decided to mobilize all of the monasteries in
> Tibet, each with more than 100 lamas, especially those of the Yellow
> Sect of Tibetan Buddhism, and ask the monks to take to the street and
> involve common Tibetans in the demonstrations. The meeting also
> plotted to launch ongoing protests, in stages, in Tibetan-inhabited
> areas.
>
> Samdhong, the "prime minister" of the "Tibetan government-in-exile,"
> said at the meeting that they should seize the very rare op****tunity
> provided by the Beijing Olympics to make breakthroughs in the "Tibet
> cause", to pave the way for the Dalai Lama to "return" to Tibet and to
> achieve a high level of autonomy in "Greater Tibet", as well as the
> goal of "aboli****ng" the existing management method on the
> reincarnation of Tibetan living Buddhas.
>
> The Dalai clique also entrusted the "ministry of finance" under the
> "government-in-exile" to "financially sup****t the decisive battle
> against the Chinese government," the article said.
>
> A day after the violence began on March 14, the "Tibetan Youth
> Congress (TYC)", a hardline organization under the Dalai Lama's
> sup****ters that openly preaches violence, decided to "set up guerillas
> to infiltrate Tibet and start armed struggles" at a meeting in
> Dharamsala, where the "Tibetan government-in-exile" was located, the
> article said.
>
> They also drafted recruitment plans and plans to purchase weapons and
> planned to steal into Tibet through the China-Nepal border.
>
> The "TYC" leaders said that they were ready to "sacrifice another 100
> Tibetans at least" to achieve their goal.
>
> Besides the "TYC", other organizations that were among the Dalai
> Lama's sup****ters also sent people to Tibetan communities in India and
> Nepal, urging residents there to contact people in Tibet and other
> Tibetan-inhabited areas in China by telephone or e-mail and incite
> them, "in the name of the Dalai Lama", to hold demonstrations
> following the Lhasa violence.
>
> Cewang Rigzin, the "TYC" president, said at a meeting on March 20 that
> violence has "achieved its goal" to "awaken resistance among people in
> Tibet and attract high-profile international attention to the Tibet
> issue" but the struggle "will not stop and this incident is just the
> prelude of this year's fight."
>
> INSTIGATION OF LHASA RIOT
>
> The article detailed how the Dalai Lama's backers masterminded a so-
> called "Tibetan people's uprising" that led to the violence in Lhasa.
>
> Five organizations under the "Tibetan government-in-exile", the "TYC",
> the "Tibetan Women's Association (TWA)," "Students for a Free Tibet
> (SFT)," the "National Democratic Party of Tibet (NDPT)"and the "Gu-Chu-
> Sum Movement of Tibet (GCSMT)" announced the formal start of the
> "Tibetan people's uprising" on Jan. 4 this year and founded a
> tem****ary preparation office in charge of coordination and financing,
> headed by Cewang Rigzin, according to the re****t.
>
>
> They claimed that the movement would be a "turning point in the
> history of Tibetans' struggle for freedom," the article said.
>
> "They divided the movement into four stages," it said. The first was
> to recruit participants and promote the ideas of the movement. The
> second stage, or the action step, started on March 10, followed by the
> third, which was to organize demonstrations across the world. The last
> one was to launch actions in the regions inhabited by Tibetan people
> inside China.
>
> FOREIGN ASSISTANCE
>
> From Feb. 15 to 17, the five organizations launched training programs
> for people in charge of the movement activities in Dharamsala in
> northwest India, where the "Tibetan government-in-exile" was located.
>
> Four days later, in the same place, they started a six-day campaign to
> recruit participants.
>
> The "GCSMT" obtained financial assistance from the U.S.-based National
> Endowment for Democracy (NED) on Feb. 27 from a fund "for activists to
> deal with danger."
>
> According to an NED re****t, the foundation granted 1.36 million U.S.
> dollars to the Dalai Lama's backers between 2002 and 2006. In 2006
> alone, it gave 85,000 U.S. dollars to organizations such as the "TWA"
> and "GCSMT."
>
> The Dalai clique questioned about 300 Tibetans who were smuggled
> across the border from China during February in a bid to collect
> information for planned attacks on border points or infiltration into
> China, the article said.
>
> On March 10, after careful selection, 101 hard-core members setoff
> from Dharamsala to unleash the movement.
>
> HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF
>
> March 10 is the anniversary of the so-called "Tibet uprising" in 1959.
> On that date, 49 years ago, Lhasa saw a bloody riot initiated by the
> Dalai Lama's backers. Rioters killed Pagbalha Soinam Gyamco, a senior
> lama and a member of the preparation committee of the Tibet Autonomous
> Region, tied his body to a horse and dragged it for two kilometers.
>
> The day, annually commemorated by the Dalai Lama's backers, has been a
> reminder of violence. And history seems to have repeated itself.
>
> On the same date this year, a ceremony was held in Dharamsala to mark
> the event. The 14th Dalai Lama said in a critical statement that the
> Chinese government had imposed "more severe repression upon Tibetans
> in Tibet" and "trampled on human rights and limited religious
> freedom".
>
> He also expressed appreciation for the "Tibetan people's sincerity,
> courage and resolution."
>
> Immediately after the ceremony, about 300 monks from the Zhaibung
> Monastery tried to march into central Lhasa. In the following days,
> monks from other temples in Lhasa also tried to demonstrate but were
> restrained by police.
>
> When the monks' efforts to spread unrest failed, rioters came. They
> torched shops and vehicles, attacked innocent passers-by on the
> streets and even attacked ambulances on March 14.
>
> TRYING TO ESCAPE RESPONSIBILITY
>
> After the Lhasa riot on March 14, which is so far known to have
> claimed at least 18 civilian lives and caused 382 injuries, unrest
> erupted in other Tibetan-inhabited regions in the southern part of
> Gansu Province and the northern part of Sichuan Province.
>
> Mobs, some shouting slogans for "Tibet independence" and bearing flags
> of the so-called "Tibetan government-in-exile", stormed into and
> attacked government offices, police stations, hospitals, schools and
> banks.
>
> Moreover, the backers of the Dalai Lama spread violence even further
> by organizing rioters to attack Chinese embassies and consulates in
> the United States, Canada, India, Britain, France, Germany, Belgium,
> the Netherlands, Switzerland and Australia, the article said.
>
> The Dalai Lama released a statement via his personal secretariat on
> March 14, in which violent actions were described as "peaceful
> protests". On the same day, the "Tibetan government-in-exile" defined
> the riots in another statement as peaceful demonstrations by Tibetans
> to protest Chinese policies.
>
> In commenting to the British Broadcasting Cor****ation (BBC) on March
> 16, the Dalai Lama said, when prompted, that he would not ask the
> rioters to stop.
>
> The Chinese government later released film and photographs showing the
> violent attacks that took place during the riot in Lhasa, which have
> been regarded as a contradiction to the vaunted "peaceful image" of
> the Dalai Lama.
>
> On the advice of his sup****ters, the Dalai Lama changed his tune at a
> press conference on March 18, when he said that he should not have
> created an anti-Chinese mood in the international arena. The only
> option would be his retirement if the situation got out of control,
> the Dalai Lama said.
>
> His comments were soon seen by the international community as an
> admission that he had a responsibility for the riots in Lhasa.
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