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From: Xinhua 2009-03-10 09:33:00
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Commentary: Playing with outside forces, "religious figure" stakes heavy on de facto secession

As the anniversary of his exile approaches, more evidence has surfaced that the Dalai Lama and his followers have pursued a long road of splitting up the homeland despite allegations of the "nonviolent" middle way.

Explicitly acknowledging his "middle way" of nonviolence a failure, the 73-year-old Tibetan Buddhist warned the Chinese government of possible future confrontations in the Himalayan region.

The confrontations might come from his closeness with the terrorist-natured Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), which is based in India. Well-advised people would no longer believe the Dalai Lama and his supporters are innocent after the TYC was found to take part in plotting the March 14 riot in Lhasa last year with aid from outside forces.

The Dalai Lama, while pretending to be a purely religious figure, has never stopped reaching his hands beyond sermon since he left his homeland. More declassified files have supported evidence of foreign influence over Tibet.

He had actively contacted the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)via middlemen, which resulted in a CIA-backed insurrection that triggered his exile fifty years ago.

According to the CIA Briefings to Presidential Candidates 1952-1992, along with other secrete operations in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, "Agency activities in Tibet were also a discrete item" around 1959, during the Kennedy Administration.

A report released on www.opensecrets.org shows that the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a pro-independence advocacy group, has spent more than 552,000 U.S. dollars in the past decades lobbying the U.S. Congress and other agencies to press the alleged Tibetan issues.

The ICT's lobbying expenditure has showed rapid growth in the past four years, reaching a record high at 133,237 U.S. dollars in2008.

In an ongoing exhibition held in Beijing to showcase social and economic progress in Tibet since the democratic reform, the Chinese government exhibits some weapons captured in the fights against rebels in 1959.

As another footnote to unveil the CIA's notorious involvement in training Tibetan guerrillas and provide weapons in the insurrection, trophies such as U.S.-made Thomson M1A1 submachine gun and British- styled Bren light machine gun are displayed with distinct illustrations.

However, a few foreign media, such as the Agence France-Presse (AFP), made funny mistakes by saying in a press photo caption that the Thompson and Bren guns were used by Chinese soldiers.

It has not been the first time western media created such a distortion as it has a long-standing bias and skeptical attitudes against the Chinese government in favor of the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

After the March 14 Lhasa riot, CNN and some other press media aired coverage on the incident with cropped pictures that only showed armed police force's vehicles but took out the rioters' throwing stones to the vehicles.

While calling himself a "refugee," the Dalai Lama continues playing with outside forces to mess up his profane goals of ruling the people his inner circle used to enslave.

 

 
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