China Says Tibetans Linked to Al-Qaeda

By Diane Smith
14:41, May 5th 2008
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China Says Tibetans Linked to Al-Qaeda

China continued its accusations towards the Dalai Lama. During the meeting with the Buddhist spiritual leader’s envoy in Beijing, the Chinese authorities accused His Holiness of "monstrous crimes," "fraud" and links with terrorist group Al-Qaida.

China said a Tibetan outfit based in India had links with the Muslim terrorist organization.  
As most experts predicted, the meeting between the Chinese top officials and Tibet’s representatives had not significant results. Dalai Lama's two representatives Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen returned to Dharamshala, India from the meeting in Shenzen with nothing.

All the Chinese assured them about was that they will hold another session of meetings at "an appropriate time", which practically means whenever Beijing wants to.

During the meeting, the Chinese authorities urged the Dalai Lama to make some "credible moves" to stop the violent protests in Tibet and all over the world and also to stop "sabotaging" the Beijing Olympics. These were the conditions for a next round of meetings.

This was the seventh session of talks between the two sides, but none yielded any result.

"Following the March 14 incident in Lhasa, the Dalai has not only refused to admit his monstrous crimes, but also has continued to perpetuate fraud," the official Tibet Daily wrote.

The article published by the newspaper dismissed Dalai Lama’s "genuine autonomy" and "greater Tibet region" ideas and also criticized the „Dalai clique." The Tibet Daily said that the exiled Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) based in Dharamshala is the "armed spearhead of the 14th Dalai Lama group".

State-run news agency Xinhua went so far as saying the "TYC has become a terrorist organization."

Before agreeing to talk to Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Chinese authorities accused Dalai Lama on several occasions of masterminding protests that came right before the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. China had said the Dalai Lama wanted to “steal” and boycott the Olympic Games.

The Buddhist spiritual leader, who fled Tibet amid a failed uprising in 1959, says he is seeking meaningful autonomy for Tibet rather than independence from Chinese rule.



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