By Li Hongmei People' Daily Online
Although sabotage from the Dalai Lama group remains the biggest menace to Tibet's development, it will by no means block the progress of the Tibetan society at large. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the region's Democratic reform, and March 28 will be the Serfs' Emancipation Day agreed upon unanimously by the Tibetan Autonomous Regional People's Congress to commemorate annually the day in 1959, when Tibetan surfs and slaves, then accounting for more than 90 percent of the region's population, were freed after the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters.
But for all these years, the Dalai Lama group has never showed any signs of ceasing to promote the notorious 'Tibet Independence.' They tried to collude with their agents in Tibet and even sent people to the region; the so-called 'Tibetan government in-exile' masterminded and fomented the destructive March 14 Lhasa riots last year. A handful of exiled Tibetans went to such extremes that they explicitly and repeatedly expressed their attempts to separate Tibet from the Chinese territory, their defeated attempts ranging from harassing and disturbing the international tour of Beijing Olympic torch relay to dogging and making trouble to the Chinese leaders' international visits.
Additionally, through creating chaos that harm the region's stability, they intend to internationalize the so-called 'Tibet issue'; through fabricating stories about the 'Chinese suppression' on Tibetan culture and religion, they attempt to rally the international support; and through lobbying around by mixing up black and white, they try to confuse the public opinion and convince the world, by manipulating evidence, that the temporary security measures, taken by the government to deter the possible disturbances form the pro-'Tibet Independence' forces, are 'tightened clampdown upon Tibetans.'
When most parts of Tibet were celebrating their traditional Tibetan New Year, or Losar, the 'Tibetan government in-exile' launched the so-called 'somber protests' trying desperately to fuel the anti-Chinese sentiments among the Tibetans. But in actuality, most Tibetans live a life as normal as usual. Their New Year's celebrations, religious activities, including major rituals, have all along going on as usual. 'They (the Dalai Lama and his supporters) are not willing to see the stability and development in Tibet,' said Legqog, director of the Standing Committee of the Tibetan Autonomous Regional People's Congress on the sidelines of the ongoing sessions of NPC and CPPCC. 'This year they have intensified their secessionist activities,' he added.
By the way, if his memory does not decay, the Dalai Lama should remember that he used to so readily accept the appointment from the central government as Vice-Chairman of the NPC Standing Committee before his fleeing Tibet. And if he would like to relate Tibet in history, he should have the knowledge that the title of 'Dalai Lama' came into being in Emperor Wanli's reign of the Ming Dynasty, and Tibet became an Administrative Region of China even as far back as the Yuan Dynasty. But “His Holiness' the Dalai Lama seems to have been suffering amnesia or playing ignorant when he has devoted himself all these years to globe-trotting as a political monk clad in saffron in a bid to win the support for his 'noble cause' of 'Tibet independence.'
Unfortunately, the Dalai Lama group's attempt to split China is doomed to a complete failure, as Tibet was, is and will always be an inalienable part of the Chinese territory. Facts will never be bent by any plot and intrigue. As a living Buddha was quoted as saying, 'separatists will find no room to replay a scenario they plotted in the riots in Tibet last March.' In today's Tibet, people cherish a peaceful and harmonious life, which is not easily come by. Hence a small group of secessionists who attempt to make troubles have already lost social and public support.
The State Council Information Office published on Mar.2 a white paper on the situation in Tibet before and since 1959. And currently, an exhibition on the same topic is also held in Beijing. Both of them will display the true Tibet and the historic changes that Tibet has ever seen since the Democratic Reform in 1959.
It is no point the Dalai Lama group making all this bluff and bluster, as the fact in itself is the most eloquent proof to show what a real Tibet is now like and what the majority of Tibetans truly feel. Tibet will progress, whatever happens, and people will sooner or later discern the truth out of facts, even if the Dalai Lama group has been acting in a way beyond redemption, and no matter how much they have deliberately distorted both history and reality.
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