Dalai Lama Lies About Tibet's Culture, Religion
2004-04-08 14:14
LHASA,
October 29 (Xinhuanet)- An official has described
what the Dalai Lama said at the European Parliament as
"sheer nonsense".
The
official from the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Chinese
National People's Congress (NPC) said what the Dalai Lama
told the European legislators as "sheer nonsense
designed to fool the world".
The
Dalai Lama said at the October 24 session of the European
Parliament 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".
The official of the
NPC foreign affairs committee said that the Dalai Lama had
fled from the country for more than four decades by now and
has never been back to see for himself what has happened and
what is happening to this part of the
country.
The Dalai Lama, therefore,
knows nothing of the real situation in Tibet, said the
official who added that the Dalai Lama fled the country
after the failture of an armed rebellion in
1959.
The same official said that a
democratic reform was carried out at the request of the
local people after the Dalai Lama had fled
Tibet.
The extremely barbarous serfdom
system was abolished in the reform and in 1965 the ethnic
regional autonomy was instituted in Tibet to make the region
one of the five autonomous regions in
China.
The once serfs and slaves under
the Dalai Lama's rule have become masters of their own fate
and with the assistance from the central government and
other parts of the country, the economy in Tibet has
experienced a fast growth and the living standards in Tibet
have therefore been raised greatly, the official
added.
The ethnic culture, education
and public health in Tibet have also scored tremendous
progress and freedom of religious belief and the fundamental
rights and freedoms have been guaranteed to the local
people.
The official said that fresh
achievements are being made in Tibet at present in the
reform and opening-up of the region, especially in the
economic restructuring.
"Tibet now
enjoys a stable society and an ever-developing economy and
local people are living and working in harmony and
contentment," said the official. (End)
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