(October 27, 2001)
In defiance of
Chinas repeated presentation and strong
opposition,afew responsible members of the European
Parliament(EP) gave permission to the Dalai Lamas
visit and provided him with a platform against china on
October 24 at EPs general assembly,allowing him to
deliver a long,fact-distorting speech to wantonly attack the
Chinese government and unscrupulously paddle his plot of
sptitting China.such erroneous acts naturally arouse our
great indignation.
The Dalai Lamas speech
at the EP general assembly once again revealed his true
nature of not being a mere religious fellow but a
politician-in-exile under the robe of Buddhism who gengages
himself with activities aimed at spliiting the
motherland.Profuse in hypocrisy,his speech is prepared with
much thought of trying to deceive and hoodwink the
international community by means of concoction
lies,confounding right and wrong and turning things upside
down so as to win s ympathy and support and fan up
unfavorable sentiment against China.He dishonestly claimed
that he was not an expert in political science
so that he made the address as a simple Buddhist
monk, and that he believed in and sought for
democracy,freedomandhumilitynd
advocated tolerance,forgiveness so on and so
forth.But under the coverage of the beautiful veil,he
obstinately holds onto his consistent position of
Tibetan independence,alleging quite
astonishingly that Tibet is an occupied country
where immense destruction and human suffering
inflicted on the people of Tibet,where serius
violations of human rights are widespread,and its
culture and national identity are facing the threat of
extinction.Accusing the Central government for having
refused to engage him for talks,he appealed for
international attention and support.from the above one can
easiy tell the intenion and the ulterior motives dalai
harbors to split the motherland.
Facts speak
louder than words and lies repeated even for one hundred
times cannot alter the reality.So,let us see what the facts
tell.
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.Since then,Tibet has been an administrative region
directly under the jurisdiction of the Central Government of
China.The Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Lama are the two
leading incarnation hierarchines of the Gelug Sect of
Tibetan Buddhism.the Central Government of Chinas qing
dynasty granted hoinorific titles to the dalai Lama and the
Bainqen Lama in 1653 and 1713 respectively,officially
established their political and religious ststus in
Tibet,and held the power to decidethe reincarnation of the
Dalai Lama and the Bainqen Lama.Their installation and
succession must be granted and approved by the Central
Government.The 14th Dalai Lama,who is now in exile,succeeded
to the throne in 1940 after the approval of the then
Chairman of Chinas national government.Tibet has never
been an independent state and no government in the world has
ever recognized it as such a
state.
Peoples Repulbic of China was
founded in 1949 after the Chinese Reoples War of
Liberation won the decisive victory.Such cities and
provinces as Beiping , Hunan,Xinjiang and Xikang were all
liberated peacefully one after another from the rule of the
former Kuomintang government.Deciding to adopt the same
peaceful approach to Tibet,the central Government invited
the local authourities of Tibet to send delegates
to Beijing for negotiations. In January 1951, the 14th Dalai
Lama accepted the proposal for peaceful negotiations. He
sent delegates to Beijing and signed on peaceful
negotiations.He sent delegates to Beijing and signed on May
23, the Agreement of the central Peoples Government
and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the
Peaceful Liberation of Tibet(i.e.the 17-Article
Agreement).It was explicitly stipulated in the agreement
that national religious autonomy would be instituted in
Tibet,and the political system in Tibet or the established
status,functions and powers of the dalai Lama and the
Bainqen Erdeni should remain unchanged.It also emphasized
that the religious beliefs,customs and habits of the Tibetan
people must be respected,and the spoken and written language
and school education of the Tibetan ethnic group should be
developed step by step along with the development of
agriculture,livestock raising,industry and commerce and the
improvement of the peoples living standard.It
specifically stipulates that in matters relating to reforms
in various fields in Tibet,there should be no coercion on
the part of the central authourities,and reform should be
carried out by the Tibetan local government of its own
accord and through consultations between the Tibetan people
and their leaders.The agreement won the approval and support
of the people from allwalks of life in Tibet.The Dalai and
Bainqen also expressed their support by a telegram and s
statement respectively.With the support of the Tibetan
people,the Peoples Liberation Army entered Lhasa and
other areas without a hitch according to the agreement and
the peaceful liberation was fulfilled in Tibet.The
PLAs entry into Tibet represents the process in which
the central Government atkes over the local authouities 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.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.However,the Dalai claims repeatedly
that china has invaded Tibet and refuses to
recognize Tibet as part of China.Isnt his intention of
splitting the motherland abundantly clear? 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 Tibets
future.The dalais stand for referendum is
absolutely in the service of his political attempts to split
the motherland.
The formulation of the
17-Agreement,which was reached between the Central
Government and the Tibetan local governments for the
peaceful liberation of Tibet,has fully embodied the Central
Governments concern and care for the Tibetan local
government.The contents of the agreement exactly demonstrate
the full respect of the cetral authouities for the
culture,religion and the way of life of the Tibetan
people.However,the Dalai,in his address,slandered that the
central Government emposed 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 dont know the reality in
Tibet.
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-chass
monks and nobles.At that times,95% of the tibeatans were
serfs and slaves who had liberally no personal freedom.Their
owners could trade and transfer them,present thern as gifts
and exchange them,and could arbitrarily carry out such
savage and cruel punishments upon them in the owners
private penitentiaries as gouging out the eyes, cutting off
ears,hands and feet,pulling off tendons,and throwing them
into eater Inhumane examples like these could be seen
everywhere in Tibet and such are the realimmense
destruction and human suffering inflicted on the
people of Tibet.the feudal serfdom in Tibet was darker and
crueler than the European serfdom of the Middle ages.It can
never be emphasized to say that old Tibet was one of the
places in the world where hauman rights were violatied most
seriously during the course of the twentieth century.The
Dalai Lama,as then the highest dictator of
Tibet,bears inevitable responsibilities for this,and he is
the real arch-criminal who has trampled upon human rights
and freedoms in Tibet.He never dares to mention his
barbarous ruling in old Tibet and has not expressed any
sense of repentance.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.
After
the peaceful liberation of Tibet,the immense majouity of
Tibetan serfs earnestly wanted to smash the yoke of the
feudal serfdom and to carry out the democratic reform. The
Central Government adopted a very circumspect attitude
toward the reform.In accordance with the 17-Article
agreement,the Central Government didnt use coercion to
implement such reform but allowed it to be carried out by
the Tibetan local government of its own accord.In 1957, the
Central Government also decided that in the period of the
second Five-Year Plan (1958-1962),no reforms would be
carried out in Tibet,and whether to carry it out or not
after that should be left to the Tibetan local government ot
decided.However,some members of the Tibetan ruling class
were hostile to the reform and wanted to preserve the
serfdom forever so as to maintain their own vested
interests.Therefore,they deliberately violated and sabotaged
the 17-Article Agreement and masterminded armed rebellion in
certain areas in a bid to separate the motherland.In March
1959, a handful of Tibetan serf-owners,colluding with
foreign forces,mounted a general armed rebellion and
advocated flagrantly the separatist slogan of Tibetan
independence.With the support and assistance of the
broad Buddhist monks and laymen,the PLA quelled swiftly the
separatistsrebellion.The Dalai Lama fled the country
after the failure of his conspiracy and has since got on the
road of confrontation with the central Government and
Tibetan compatriots.This is what Dalai falsely described as
the course that the Tibetan people rose up against the
Chinese and I had to escape from
Tibet.Learning the truth,one cannot but feel
Dalais tricks of confounding black and
white.
Proceeding from the Overall
consideration of maintaining the unification of the
motherland and national unity,the Central Government waited
patiently for the Dalais changing in mind and
returning to the motherland after he fled Tibet.His position
as a vice-chairman of the Standing committee of the National
Pelples Congress had been kept for him until
1964.However,the Dalai Lama completely renounced the
patrictic stand he once expressed and has engaged himself in
numerous activities to split the motherland.He publicly
advocates that Tibet is an independent state and
has never abandoned his stand of Tibet
independence.He set up a government in
exile,established branch offices in many
places around the world,tossed out Principles for
Nation-building,and formulated the so-called
Constitution of the State of Tibet.He organized
rebellion forces and for many times plotted violent riots in
tibet .He sent secret agents and intelligence personnel to
carry out terrorist activities in Tibet.He spread rumors and
calumnies and engineered other sorts of separatist
activities.He shuttled among foreign countries only to
advertise the Tibetan independence,try ing to
internationalize the so-called Tibetan issue.By
analyzing what the Dalai Lama has done over the past 40
years,we can find out that he has done nothing to
serve the people of Tibet, but instead,he has
done everythding try ing to regain his lost paradise.there
he could re-enslave the Tibetan people and separate Tibet
from the motherland.However,his fond dreams will by no means
come true.
The dalai Lama has fled from the
country for more than 40 years and has never since set his
foot again on the soil of Tibet.Therefore, he knows nothing
of the real situation there.In spite of this,he talks such
nonsense that Tibet is oppressed by force and scarred
by suffering and an entire people with its
unique culture and identity are facing the threat of
extinction.Then what on earth is the
fact?
After the Dalai Lama fled amidst failure
of the armed rebellion in 1959, democratic reform was
carried out at the strong request of the broad masses of the
Tibetan people and the extremely barbarous serfdom system
was abolished.In 1965,the ethic regional autonomy was
instituted in Tibet to make it one of the five national
autonomous regions at the provincial level in china.the once
serfs and slaves under the dalais rule became masters
of their own destiny.with the help of the central government
and other areas throughout the country,economy in Tibet
boomed fast and the living standard there increases
continuously.at the same time,the ethnic culture,education
and public health causes there have scored tremendous
progresses,and freedom of religious belief and all the
fundamental rights and freedoms have been guaranteed to the
full.during the 200 years before 1959, the population in
Tibet had been around 1 million.By the end of 2000,there
were 2.6163 million people in Tibet,of whom 2.4112 million
were Tibetans,representing an increase of almost 1.5 times
in the 40 years.Average life expectancy in Tibet has risen
from 36 years in 1959 to 67 years at present. In the old
Tibet,serfs and slaves,accounting for 95% of the
population,were illiterates or esmi-illiterates and the few
schools were open only to the children of noble origin.In
contrast,presently Tibet has established an integrated
education system covering from pre-school to higher and
professional education.More than 4,300 schools of different
categories have been set up,and the rate ofilliterates and
semi-illiterates has reduced to the size of below 40% of
present population. The government has systematically
investigated,collected,collated,studied and published the
traditional cultural heritage and folk arts of Tibetans,and
stipulated clearly the study and use of the Tibetan language
and bilingual(Tibetan and Chinese) education.the Tibetan
cultural characteristics are being further popularized.The
central Government has channeled special appropriations to
the maintenance of more htan 1,700 monasteries and religious
sites, the Potala Palace included.Tibetan people fully enjoy
the freedom of engaging in religious activities.at
present,fresh achievements are being made in the reform and
opening-up,economic restructuring and all other social
drives in the Tibetan autonomous Region,where situation is
stable,economy developing,society progressing,and people
living and working in harmony and contentment.Tibet has
experienced earth-shaking changes.
History and
facts show no tolerance distortion.In the past 40 years, the
culure,religion and ethnic in Tibet are highly upheld and
greatly developed and are not facing the threat of
extinction as described by the dalai Lama.In a short
span of only 40 years,Tibet has gone throuht a social and
economic revolution that would normally have repuired
centuries for mankind to accomplish.this makes Tibet one of
the fastest developed and best improved areas of the
contemporary world in terms of various kinds of social
undertakings and human rights sutuation.what dalai said
about the religious and cultural conditions in Tibet is also
sheer nonsense designed to fool the world.
In
his speech at the EP,he uttered again the
so-calledgenuine autonomy of Tibet and
Tibetans fully responsible for their own domestic
affairs.the words he repeated many times in recent
years. Now let us take a look at whoever governs Tibet and
how the governance is carried out.since Tibet adopted Ethnic
Regional autonomy,Tibetan and other ethnic minorities
officials now account for 80 percent of the total staff in
the whole region and 93.2 percent of the component members
of the organs of state power at the four levels of
autonomous region,prefecture,county and township.Tibetan
citizens hold the key positions in Peoples congress
has formulated more than 160 by-laws and drawn up urles for
implementing national laws conforming to the local features
of Tibet.for example,in addition to the official national
holidays,the Tibetan New Year and the sholton have been
designated as the Regional holidays;Tibet has decreed a work
week of 35 hours,five hours less than the official national
work week for workers and staff in accordance with the
special natural and geographical conditions of Tibet. These
fully show that the Ethnic Regional Autonomy is well
implemented in Tibet,and the Tibetans have realized their
ideal of self-governance.But the dalai Lama is reluctant to
admit the fact that the Tibetans have become the masters of
their own affairs.The genuine autonomy put
forward by him is nothing but a synonym for
separation and
independence.
Moreover,dalai in his
speech addressed to the EP said that his initiatives
and overtures to engage the Chinese leadership in a dialogue
remain unreciprocated,Beijings attitude
has hardened significantly compared to the
eighties.this again is an out-and-out
lie.
Chinas policy towards the Dalai Lama
is consistent and explicit.that is , we hope that he could
renounce his separatist stand of Tibetan
independence and come back to the position of
patriotism.The door will always be open to contacts between
the central Government and the Dalai Lama.The fact is that
since February 1979 when he began sending representatives to
contact with the Chinese Central Government,the central
Government has received more than ten times delegates sent
by him.The channel for contacts is well open.What the
Central government requires the Dalai Lama to do is only
that he renounces his stand of Tibetan
independence,stops his separatist activities,and
openly states that Tibet is an inalienable part of
china,that Taiwan is one of chinas provinces and that
the government of the Peoples Republic of China is the
sole legitimate government representing the whole of
china.However,the Dalai Lama has consistently rejected the
reasonable demand of the central Government.He readjusted
his tactics now and then,severing his contacts with the
central Government when he thinks the situation is favorable
to him, nad requesting resumption of contacts when he feels
the situation unfavorable.although the contacts are
intermitted due to the dalai Lamas disruption,he has
spread lies across the world that the central Government
declined to negotiate with him and appealed to
the international communit to exert pressure on the Chinese
government in an effort ot attain his goal of
separation.
Looking back at the history of
contacts between the central Government and the Dalai Lama
for more than 20 years,it is clear that although the dalai
Lama kept on changing his tricks,his stand of Tibetan
independencestill remains unchanged.Even when he is
being engaged in contacts with the central government,he
never relinquishes his separatist activities both at home
and abroad.Isnt the speech given by the dalai Lama at
the EP an evident proof of his activities to oppose the
central Government,split the motherland and undermine the
national unity?
The Chinese government has time
and again reiterated that the issue of the dalai Lama is not
a religious issue but a political one,and that the dalai
Lama is not merely a religious figure but a
politician-in-exile who indulges in activities of splitting
the motherland.there is not at all the so-calledissue
of Tibet.The situation in Tibet is quite satisfactory
and the Tibetan people are content with it.What really
exists is the issue of dalais separatist activities.we
disagree to any country and international organizations that
render invitation to and meetin with the dalai Lama in any
name and style and provide the Dalai clique with venues for
doing separatist political activities.Such acts by a fes
members of the EP as to allow dalai to step onto the EP
forum to deceive the international community has not only
greatly hurt the feelings of the Chinese people but also
damaged the healthy advancement of the sino-european
relations.
Recently,a few members of the EP who
have prejudice against china frequently tabled in
confrontational style some irrational bills or resolutions
to deliberately vilify china.These bills or resolutions
repeatedly make irresponsible remarks on such issues as
Tibet,Taiwan,human rights and religious freedom.by
distorting facts or even fabricating stories,they are aimed
at making unwarranted charges against China.we cant
help asking wherever the EP is going to drag the
Sino-European relations to?
We sincerely hope
that the EP could take into consideration of the overall
Sino-European friendly cooperation relationship and no
longer do anything that will hurt the feelings of the
Chinese people and be detrimental to the image of the EU.we
hold that dialogues should be held between us on the basis
of mutual respect and equatity so as to promote our mutual
understanding,broaden our consensus and reduce our
misunderstanding and differences.as for the issue of
Tibet,we would rather hope that the EP members could put
aside prejudice and learn the true picture of Tibet by
visiting there themselves.In this way they will be able to
avoid making erroneous judgements and conclusions based on
biased opinions and information and avoid hampering the
sound development of sino-European relations.