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China continues anti-Dalai Lama tirade after talks (Roundup)
May 5, 2008, 13:10 GMT
Beijing - Chinese state media on Monday continued tough rhetoric against the Dalai Lama, accusing the exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader of 'monstrous crimes' one day after holding talks with his envoys.
The 'Dalai clique' wanted to 'confuse public opinion and incite ethnic hatred' as part of a plan to split China, the official Tibet Daily newspaper said in a commentary.
'Following the March 14 incident in Lhasa, the Dalai has not only refused to admit his monstrous crimes but has also continued to perpetuate fraud,' the commentary said, referring to rioting in the capital of China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
China said 18 civilians and one police officer died in the March 14 rioting in Lhasa.
The Tibetan government in exile, based in the Indian town of Dharamsala, said 203 people had died since March in widespread unrest in Tibetan areas of China, most of them Tibetans shot by Chinese police.
Meanwhile, the Tibetan government termed as 'baseless' the Chinese accusations that the Dalai Lama was behind the violence in Tibet and had indulged in activities to split China.
'We do not accept it. We ask them (China) to prove the allegations against the Dalai Lama to the world community,' Samdhong Rinpoche, prime minister of the government in exile, told the PTI news agency.
The entire world knows that the Tibetan leader stands for peace and non-violence, he said and added that levelling allegations against him that he instigated violence in Lhasa and other places is 'not convincing.'
The Tibetan administration earlier said it was pleased with the 'informal' talks between Chinese officials and envoys of the Dalai Lama on Sunday, and that Beijing had committed to continue the dialogue.
Although the talks achieved no breakthrough, the discussions proceeded satisfactorily in a 'good atmosphere' with both sides communicating their positions to each other, Rinpoche said via telephone from Dharamsala.
The talks in China's southern city of Shenzhen were the first meeting between the two sides in nearly a year.
The Chinese officials 'patiently answered the questions raised by the two representatives' of the Dalai Lama and 'exchanged views with them on future contacts and consultations,' the official China Daily reported.
They told the envoys that the rioting in Lhasa had raised 'new obstacles for resuming contact and consultations with the Dalai side' and 'jeopardized the fundamental interests of all the Chinese, including Tibetans,' the newspaper said.
They said China's ruling Communist Party hoped the Dalai Lama and his supporters would 'create conditions for the next round of contact and consultation' by taking 'credible action to stop activities aimed at splitting China, stop plotting and inciting violence, and stop disrupting and sabotaging the Beijing Olympic Games.'
Sunday's talks were held in the wake of anti-China protests, rioting and a Chinese crackdown in Tibetan areas since March 10, the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising in Tibet against Chinese rule.
The talks followed international pressure on China to reopen dialogue after Beijing's crackdown on Tibetan protesters, which has marred its preparations for the Olympics.
The Chinese government has engaged in six rounds of dialogue with representatives of the Dalai Lama since 2002, but no progress has been reported. The previous round was held in June.
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'Shambala Confederation of Shugden Warriors'
Protected by the US Constitution and The Bill Of Rights
The Buddha Dharma Will Flourish
Brave Citizens Protecting Our Honor
Wisdom Protect the Dharma & Our Rights to Freedoms.
'Now I am free to practice openly'
Council Of Vajra Elders
Thomas David Canada. USA.
Dear Dalai lama,
I am writing to inform you that I intend to launch a protest at the Tibetan Cultural Center in Bloomington with at least 2,000 Chinese Shugden Supporters this summer. The intent is to reveal your violations of the US Constitution and our Bill of Rights. I am hoping that your servants will deny access to the grounds to validate my strong opposition to your current policy is that of a tyrant that you have unfortunately evolved into over the years.
I am writing to tell you this, as you have proven to be a big disappointment to me with your harsh and cruel activities towards your own people.
I will be in Beijing this summer, enlisting the Chinese to support me to help heal your afflicted mind.
I hope to see you there with your brother Thubten and we can view freedom in action as the protest file down the lane of my home town
I truly regret throwing my property away by giving it to you. I hope my activities will alter that my poor choice in trusting you and your brother and return the land to a true and honest group that does feed on it's own people as you do. Shame on you. You have disgraced millions of people in this world and disappointed the heavens with your shameless behavior.
I am available to discuss these issues should you care to be reasonable. Otherwise, I'll wave to you on your way down.
Sincerely
Thomas Canada
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JohnMay 5th, 2008 - 18:52:17
The dialog is always better than confrontation.
Tibetans once ruled the China.
The land of China has been shared by many ethnic groups.
The so-called Han Chinese is in fact a mix of many ethnic groups
who competed (or killed) each other in the last five thousand years.
In fact, even today, the difference between a Han Chinese in Canton
and a Han Chinese in Beijing is significantly wider than that between Southern Italian and
somebody from Barcelona. For one thing, they can not even verbally communicate
each other with their own languages. Han Chinese, Mongols, Manchu,
Tibetans and Hui (Turks) ruled the land of China one after another.
A Tibetan became emperor of West China in 5th century when his army seized
the Chinese then capital Chang-an and his family ruled there for several generations.
Late centuries saw Tibetan armies burned the capital down twice. During the Mongolian-Tibetan rule
of China, lamas spread all over China, from the east coast to southern provinces.
The Han Chinese majority were not always the rulers of the land of China. In fact, before
1911 revolution, from 911 AD to 1911AD, about 70 % of times, in particular, in the north,
China were ruled by Kitan, Machu, Mongol-Tibetan and Manchu.
The 1911 revolution brought the Republic of China which specifically stated that she is a republic
of five ethnic groups: Han Chinese, Machu, Mongols, Tibetan and Hui. Her national flag
was an European style of five colored strips each represents one of the above mentioned
ethnic groups. Tibetan is not analog of American Indian to US or Australian aborigine people
to Australia. Tibetans are very much an active force in the land of China. While there were
wars between these peoples, Tibetans were never viewed as outsiders in last three thousand years
of Chinese history. Dalai Lama's rule in the area of Lhasa was established by Qing imperial
army which extended to all Tibet later after a Chinese imperial calvary helped
Dalai Lama' war against the King of Napal and push the King's army to the other side of the Himalaya.
Tibetans have a glorious history, wonderful culture and had once thriving economy. Ancient Tibetans helped
the establishment the Chou Kingdom of China which saw the rise of Chinese civilization in the central
China. The Tibetan Kingdom of 7th-8th century stood firmly against the expansion of the mighty Tang Empire (of Xianbei-Han Chinese). Her decline was companied by the 5th Dalai Lama and his successor's strict religious rule unfortunately (Taliban would be 10 times moderate) whose population of about 5 millions during the Mogol-Tibetan time was reduced to 1.2 million in 1949 under the Dalai Lamas. Those who support 'Free Tibet' movement should ask if any of the former slaves of those exile noble men and lama monks would like to return to
the one of most destructive period of Tibetan
history.
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