Young Tibetan mother and student self-immolate in China.

[rajnikant]

Dalai urges suicides: Tibetan self-immolations applauded by Dalai Lama

Global Times | March 03, 2012

A series of self-immolations committed by Tibetan monks was applauded by the Dalai Lama, a spokesperson for China's top political advisory body claimed on Friday, calling for people not to take extreme actions under the incitement of others.

Zhao Qizheng, a spokesperson for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), made the remarks at a press conference before the opening of this year's annual session of the CPPCC.

A string of self-immolations broke out in Tibetan-inhabited areas in the provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai, bordering the Tibet Autonomous Region, in recent months.

And at least two mob attacks on local police offices were reported in the Tibetan areas in Sichuan Province in late January, leaving at least two people dead and more than a dozen injured.

Expressing his grief, Zhao said most of the monks who set fire to themselves were very young, with the youngest one aged 18.

"Before those unfortunate incidents took place, there were people who published the time and places in advance. Some people brought video cameras to film the incidents, and some of them even tried to prevent the rescue efforts," Zhao said.

Zhao called the Dalai Lama a "double-dealer," although Western media have quoted him as attempting to dissuade monks from their plans for suicide.

"According to what I have heard, he publicly applauded the courage of these people who set fire to themselves," Zhao added.

Zhao said committing suicide, which shows disrespect for life, is not a wise thing to do. He asked relevant people not to take extreme actions to express their attitudes.

"It is important to avoid being misled," Zhao said. "If you lose your life because of extreme actions, it will be too late to regret it."

Hu Shisheng, an analyst with the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations, told the Global Times that those tragic incidents were plotted by separatists both in and outside the country to stir up sensations.

"The government was at a passive position at the very beginning, given that the plotters arranged these self-immolations beforehand," Hu said.

"By releasing information on such cases and preventing such tragedies from happening through precautionary measures, Beijing is gradually seizing the initiative."

Jia Qinglin, chairman of the CPPCC National Committee, told a meeting on Thursday that the "Dalai Lama clique" has been attempting to create disturbances in Tibet and the other four Tibetan-inhabited provinces, namely Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan.

He asked Party committees and governments at all levels to smash the conspiracies of the "Dalai Lama clique" and maintain social harmony and stability.

Exiled Tibetan "Prime Minister" Lobsang Sangay last week called for cancellation of celebrations for the Tibetan new year, asking Tibetans to observe traditional and spiritual rituals for monks who had immolated themselves.

Chen Quanguo, secretary of the Communist Party of China committee of Tibet, asked local officials to carry out prevention and control measures in full force, and fully implement measures for the management of new media, including mobile phones and the Internet, to maintain stability, the official Tibet Daily reported Wednesday.

Local officials are also not allowed to take leave in the coming days, according to the paper.

Authorities in Tibet have recently taken steps to improve the living conditions and environment for local monks to practice Tibetan Buddhism, according to reports.

Efforts have also been made to provide roads, water, electricity and cultural services for them, Zhao said, adding that these measures have been welcomed by local people.

Global Times

lol global times..writing about Dalai Lama..u can imaging the content without reading it.

 

[Tractor]

Zhao called the Dalai Lama a "double-dealer," ,actually he just admit that Dalai Lama was a double agent making troubles on Indian land through means of protests which under control now.

 

[帅的一匹]

Dalai Lama is a religious politician who still want to be the king of Tibet. Jokes of the Centuary！

 

[EastWest]

^^

Get us a neutral source ...no one believes Chinese propaganda newspaper a.k.a Global Times

 

[twocents]

Radio Free Asia (a US government-sponsered propaganda outfit) came out with another immolation story relying solely on a Tibetan monk in India. The whole story bears the hallmark of a fabrication. Dalai Lama and his gang of seperatists obviously are a desperate lot, resorting to iowly antics of self-immolation to keep their dashed hopes alive. Dalai Lama ought to consider self-immolation himself, if he truely believed in his cause.

 

[Paan Singh]

chinese should let them to protect their religion and gives more right to them by calling them back from india.
if chinese think that by high growth,military power,nukes bla bla bla..can solve their problem then they are going for a big mistake.
only talks solve the issues..either do war first or talk first, the results can be achieved through talks only.

and in future,with more western bending towards india rather than china,this issue is going to be a big blunder for china.

 

[iajj]

the state has given tibetans plenty of freedoms: economic freedom, political freedom, religious freedom. but two freedoms we failed to offer doomed them: freedom from indian influence and freedom from lamaist indoctrination, and so far this year we have seen how indians ordered barbequed tibetans for cheap, political purposes in their attack on china and how dalai ideologically conditioned the tibetans to take indian orders. this must not go on, and as their brothers, hans must do everything in our power to punish indians and lamas to protect the poor, hapless tibetans.

 

[seethru]

"Dalai Lama appreciating self immolation."

There goes the credibility of the article in to the drain.

Chinese need to stop making fools of themselves.

 

[seethru]

dalai lama should sit in a tejas and then self immolate.

False Flagger

 

[scherz]

The Tibetans should be given the same rights as us Han-chinese. So they will involved in one-child politic and sooner they will disapear.

 

[seethru]

The Tibetans should be given the same rights as us Han-chinese. So they will involved in one-child politic and sooner they will disapear.

Thank you for accepting that Tibetans are subjects of Han-Chinese.

 

[God of Death]

RIP to the innocent tibetans

Free Tibet

 

[iajj]

Thank you for accepting that Tibetans are subjects of Han-Chinese.

of course they are! otherwise, the country would be named lamaist theocracy of tibet and ordinary tibetans would have none of the rights and freedoms they currently enjoy as chinese subjects. for only a great people like the chinese can ensure the prosperity and welfare of all those living in its lebensraum, like the russians, like the franco-germans (to be).

 

[seethru]

of course they are! otherwise, the country would be named lamaist theocracy of tibet and ordinary tibetans would have none of the rights and freedoms they currently enjoy as chinese subjects. for only a great people like the chinese can ensure the prosperity and welfare of all those living in its lebensraum, like the russians, like the franco-germans (to be).

Again You have accepted that you are making Tibet a colony. (same old imperialist ideology of Supremacy, copy of White man's burden.)
For once do something original Chinese.

 

[Safriz]

Dalai lama is a sock puppet.....Instigating his own people to be suicidal.