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Dalai Lama's Separatist Attempt Abundantly Clear
The Dalai Lama's intention of splitting the motherland is abundantly clear as he refuses to recognize Tibet as part of China, said an official of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, Saturday in Beijing.
The official said that as is known to all, Tibet is part of China from ancient times and it was officially incorporated into China during the reign of Yuan Dynasty in the early 13th century. Tibet has been an administrative region directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government of China since then.
He said that Tibet has never been an independent state and no government in the world has ever recognized it as such a state.
After the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, the 14th Dalai Lama accepted the proposal for peaceful negotiations. He sent delegates to Beijing and signed on May 23, 1951 the Agreement of the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, which is known as the 17-Article Agreement.
The Dalai and Bainqen also expressed their support by a telegram and a statement respectively, said the official.
He said that with the support of the Tibetan people, the People 's Liberation Army (PLA) entered Lhasa and other areas without a hitch in accordance with the agreement. The peaceful liberation was fulfilled in Tibet.
The PLA's entry into Tibet represents the process in which the Central Government takes over the local authorities from the hand of the old Kuomintang regime and it won the approval and support of the Dalai himself and the broad masses of the Tibetan people, he said.
"It is perfectly justified that a central government of one country exercises jurisdiction upon its own territory and this is no exception for any country in the world," he added.
However, the Dalai Lama claims repeatedly that China has " invaded Tibet" and refuses to recognize Tibet as part of China.
"Isn't his intention of splitting the motherland abundantly clear?" the official asked.
In his speech the Dalai declared flagrantly that he wants a " referendum" for Tibet.
"Since Tibet is an inseparable part of Chinese territory and an autonomous region well under the jurisdiction of China, there is no room for conducting a 'referendum' on Tibet's future. The Dalai 's stand for 'referendum' is absolutely in the service of his political attempts to split the motherland," he said.
The Dalai Lama, in his speech, slandered that the Central Government imposed the 17-Article Agreement upon the Tibetan people and "showed scant respect for the unique culture, religion and way of life of the Tibetan people".
"This is sheer nonsense and can only fool those who don't know the reality in Tibet," said the official.
Anyone with a little knowledge of Tibetan history should know that in the area of the old Tibet, the Dalai Lama was the agent-in- chief of the feudal serfdom ruling. Under his rule, the system he practiced was theocracy characterized by the dictatorship of upper- class monks and nobles.
"The feudal serfdom in Tibet was darker and crueler than the European serfdom of the Middle Ages," said the official. "It can never be emphasized to say that old Tibet was one of the places in the world where human rights were violated most seriously during the course of the twentieth century."
The Dalai Lama, as then the highest dictator of Tibet, bears inevitable responsibilities for this.
"He is the real arch-criminal who has trampled upon human rights and freedom in Tibet," he said.
"He never dares to mention his barbarous ruling in old Tibet and has not expressed any sense of repentance," he said. "On the contrary, he deceives the international community by shamelessly assuming himself as the 'spokesman' for the freedom of Tibet and protector of human rights and humanity."
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