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China's communist regime losing ground: Dalai
Sarnath (Uttar Pradesh), Jan 16 (PTI) Claiming that
China's communist regime was slowly "losing ground", the Dalai
Lama Friday said once a democratic government comes to power
in that country Tibet will get "meaningful autonomy" as the
cause is supported by Chinese people.
"The whole world knows that we are not seeking
separation from China, rather we are demanding only meaningful
autonomy for Tibet but the oppressive Chinese government has
totally rejected the proposal," the Tibetan spiritual leader
told reporters here in India's northern state of Uttar
Pradesh.
Asked, whether he had lost hope of a positive response
from Beijing, the Dalai Lama said, "yes we have lost hope....
But the silver lining lies in the fact that the entire people
of China support the Tibetan cause. It is only the people who
matter and not the government."
"The people remain, while the government comes and
goes," the 73-year-old Nobel laureate said.
Asked to clarify, he said that the present
"authoritarian" Chinese government was "slowly losing its
ground".
He hoped that "the day China gets a democratic
government, the legitimate dream of Tibetan people for
meaningful autonomy shall be fulfiled."
He claimed that the the misinformation campaign and
the iron curtain in China was preventing the common people
from knowing the "reality".
"The unfortunate thing is that the Chinese government
is not accepting the reality. Otherwise the Chinese, who know
the reality are very much supportive of Tibetan cause," the
Dalai Lama, who was here on a 10-day religious visit, said.
"But the problem is the misinformation campaign and
the iron curtain like censorship in China which prevents most
of the common people from knowing the reality," the Dalai
said.
He said that "(China's) present day authoritarian
government is getting thinner and thinner."
Since March-2008 when anti-China protests erupted in
Tibet, he claimed more than three hundred articles have been
written by the Chinese Intelligentsia and other important
people which are "very, very supportive" of the Tibetan cause.
He said that as and when the people of China come to
know about the reality they become supportive of the Tibetan
people. "My faith in the Chinese people has been ever
growing," he added.
"If democracy comes to China, Tibetans can get their
rights very easily. As the things become clear common men
themselves will question the morality of the Chinese
government," the leader said.
To a question, he said that the Tibetan people had
submitted a proposal for autonomy under the Chinese
constitution's provisions for the minorities but still it was
outrightly rejected by Beijing.
Giving an example of the people support, he said,
"after the Tiananmen square crackdown in 1989 I met several
students and professors of China at Harvard University during
a lecture and I myself found that all of them supported our
views on the Tibetan autonomy." PTI IKD
PMR
China's communist regime was slowly "losing ground", the Dalai
Lama Friday said once a democratic government comes to power
in that country Tibet will get "meaningful autonomy" as the
cause is supported by Chinese people.
"The whole world knows that we are not seeking
separation from China, rather we are demanding only meaningful
autonomy for Tibet but the oppressive Chinese government has
totally rejected the proposal," the Tibetan spiritual leader
told reporters here in India's northern state of Uttar
Pradesh.
Asked, whether he had lost hope of a positive response
from Beijing, the Dalai Lama said, "yes we have lost hope....
But the silver lining lies in the fact that the entire people
of China support the Tibetan cause. It is only the people who
matter and not the government."
"The people remain, while the government comes and
goes," the 73-year-old Nobel laureate said.
Asked to clarify, he said that the present
"authoritarian" Chinese government was "slowly losing its
ground".
He hoped that "the day China gets a democratic
government, the legitimate dream of Tibetan people for
meaningful autonomy shall be fulfiled."
He claimed that the the misinformation campaign and
the iron curtain in China was preventing the common people
from knowing the "reality".
"The unfortunate thing is that the Chinese government
is not accepting the reality. Otherwise the Chinese, who know
the reality are very much supportive of Tibetan cause," the
Dalai Lama, who was here on a 10-day religious visit, said.
"But the problem is the misinformation campaign and
the iron curtain like censorship in China which prevents most
of the common people from knowing the reality," the Dalai
said.
He said that "(China's) present day authoritarian
government is getting thinner and thinner."
Since March-2008 when anti-China protests erupted in
Tibet, he claimed more than three hundred articles have been
written by the Chinese Intelligentsia and other important
people which are "very, very supportive" of the Tibetan cause.
He said that as and when the people of China come to
know about the reality they become supportive of the Tibetan
people. "My faith in the Chinese people has been ever
growing," he added.
"If democracy comes to China, Tibetans can get their
rights very easily. As the things become clear common men
themselves will question the morality of the Chinese
government," the leader said.
To a question, he said that the Tibetan people had
submitted a proposal for autonomy under the Chinese
constitution's provisions for the minorities but still it was
outrightly rejected by Beijing.
Giving an example of the people support, he said,
"after the Tiananmen square crackdown in 1989 I met several
students and professors of China at Harvard University during
a lecture and I myself found that all of them supported our
views on the Tibetan autonomy." PTI IKD
PMR
