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China accuses Dalai Lama of taking Olympics 'hostage'

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Posted online: Sunday , March 23, 2008 at 02:27:25
Updated: Sunday , March 23, 2008 at 02:49:55


Beijing, March 23: China has accused the Dalai Lama of plotting ‘terror’ in Tibet and colluding with Uighur separatists in Xinjiang as it escalates a security and propaganda drive to stifle anti-Chinese unrest ahead of the Olympics.

Anti-government protests by Buddhist monks erupted in Tibet's capital, Lhasa, from March 10 and five days later anti-Chinese rioting shook the city, killing a policeman and 18 civilians, burnt or hacked to death, authorities have said.

Protests then flared in nearby provinces with large ethnic Tibetan populations, leaving at least several more people dead.

In Sichuan, Gansu and other troubled provinces, troops continued conspicuously patrolling the streets of Tibetan towns, with schools and Buddhist monasteries under tight guard.

Tibet's exiled Buddhist leader, the Dalai Lama, has criticised the violence and said he wants talks with China to negotiate autonomy, but not outright independence, for his homeland.

But Beijing is intensifying propaganda telling its citizens and the rest of the world that the Dalai Lama, not failings in Government policy, caused the trouble and that he wants to ruin Beijing's Olympic Games in August.

The ruling Chinese Communist Party's official newspaper, the People's Daily, said on Sunday that the Dalai, winner of the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize, had never abandoned violence after fleeing China in 1959, following a failed revolt against Beijing.

"The so-called 'peaceful non-violence' of the Dalai clique is an outright lie from start to end," the paper stated.

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Chian by Raju on 25 Mar 2008

China has taken whole nation of Dalai Lama as hostege and the Chinkos are killing innocent Tibetans every day. Dalai Lama should not stick to non-violent principles. Look The PLO did all terrorism and they got year of the world, Dalai Lama is talking peaceful resolution and all he got is Nobel Prize and his country is still slave of Chaina as surprise!China is a monster nation with expantionist ideology and the world must through it out of UNO as China don't believe in human rights......Boycot the Chinese product.

China's flexing of muscle will not cut much ice. by DILIP/FRANCE on 24 Mar 2008

Communist thugs have no morls or compassion. The only language they understand and respect is violence,force,scolding and brutality.The same applies to Commmunist clique of India. A time is comin when they will have their arse kicked so hard that they will run out of hiding place and human decency.If china thinks it is super power China will be made to think again, athird rate power,wcich is crassly uncivilized and inhuman.

Chinese Dogs. by Patriot on 24 Mar 2008

Ha ha. This is the joke of the century. speaking of taking hostage. why don't you let the countries you hold hostage go? Tibet, Taiwan, and parts of India. China a should be given a lesson.A lesson that other imperial countries got. Countries like russia, Gremany and Japan. these chinese dogs should be spanked unitll they realize the truth. Come on people, what is happening in tibet is a shame. These are the most peaceful people in the world. If this is happening to the most peaceful people in the world, imagine what would happen to us. Tibet does not belong to China. doesn't tibet's strugle remind anyone of our strugle against the British? same peaceful protests getting replied by violence beatting. Ghandhi would have supported to tibet with force. No one wants to support tibet even though they know that is the right things. no one wants to do it because they need China and tibet has nothing to offer. what about doing the right thing? People if you want to help Tibet, then make the olympics a mess, stage protests everywhere. don't let these chineese dogs do this.

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