(Arko Datta/Reuters) "The Dalai Lama is a wolf wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and the hearf of an animal," said the Chinese leader of Tibet
Posted on 03/19/2008 10:16:40 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
March 19, 2008
China brands Dalai Lama a monster and forces students to denounce him
(Arko Datta/Reuters) "The Dalai Lama is a wolf wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and the hearf of an animal," said the Chinese leader of Tibet |
Jane Macartney in Beijing The hardline leader of Tibet has branded the Dalai Lama a “monster” as it emerged that Tibetan students in Beijing have been ordered to effectively renounce any allegiance to their god-king.
Zhang Qingli, the Communist Party Secretary in Tibet, said that the struggle to crush the unrest in the deeply Buddhist Himalayan region involved nothing less than the stability of the entire country.
That battle by China to reassert control over its restive Tibetan population has now drawn in students attending schools and universities in Beijing.
They are required to provide four answers, Tibetan sources told The Times. First, they must write a reply to the question “What position does the Dalai Lama occupy in your heart?” Second, they must provide the address and place of work of their parents. Third, they must give details of their own identity card. Finally, they must guarantee not to take part in any political activities.
Many of Tibet’s most promising students are sent to Chinese schools and universities outside the Himalayan region by parents eager to ensure they receive an education in Mandarin Chinese – the official language of China and an important tool to a good career.
One parent said: “How can they ask children of 17 or 18 to write such a political document. These children can barely even speak Tibetan. Does the government have so little trust in Tibetans that it even requires children to make such an allegiance?”
The demand that students effectively denounce the Dalai Lama, declared only on Tuesday by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao as an enemy of China, highlights the nervousness among Communist Party authorities at the continued influence the 14th reincarnation of the Ocean of Wisdom still wields among Tibetans.
Mr Zhang, addressing a meeting in Lhasa, issued a blistering tirade against the 72-year-old monk, who has lived in exile in India since he fled Lhasa in a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
“We are in the midst of a fierce struggle involving blood and fire, a life and death struggle with the Dalai clique."
The hardline party boss, launching a campaign to restore Chinese authority in Lhasa after a deadly riot last Friday in which Tibetan mobs stabbed, hacked and burnt to death several ethnic Han Chinese, is presiding over house-to-house searches for those involved.
He said: “As long as we... remain of one heart, turn the masses into a walled city and work together to attack the enemy, then we can safeguard social stability and achieve a full victory in this intense battle against separatism."
The leader who, since taking up his post two years ago, has imposed a series of new restrictions banning all government servants from attending religious ceremonies, said the Dalai Lama clique was bent on separating the Tibetan region from Chinese rule and was seeking to use the period before the Beijing Olympic Games in August to foment unrest.
"The Dalai Lama is a wolf wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and animal's heart."
Ping!
And the IOC gave them the Olympic Games.....
I’m wondering how many athletes will not participate acting on their own scruples.
I can tell you, if I were still the college trackrunner I was, I wouldn’t even be attending the trials. Might miss I medal but nothing would make me attend those games.
Re: The Dalai Lama is a wolf wrapped in a habit, a monster with human face and animal’s heart
Let’s see. Who should I believe? A man who believes in and prays for peace, or a country with still operational gulags?
Hmmmm.... That’s a tough one.
I will not be watching the Olympics for the first time in my life.....and they are one sports event I truly enjoy.
Godless Communism. Nutshell.
So Bush wants to make the world safe for democracy- except for China.
I don’t understand, is it all students in Beijing or just those of Tibetan nationality that have to write the essays? In any event, it sounds eerily redolent of the Wenhua Dageming...
This is a conumdrum for the western world: against communism in China, for the economic opportunities; for stopping violence in Tibet, against un-Christian societies; against a boycott of the Olympics, but for punishing China....what to do?
I normally do as well, especially track and field, although I enjoy gymnastics as well, primarily because these nimble individuals accomplish effortlessly what I couldn’t do with a gun to my head.
But not this time. China does not get the nod from me. The IOC should NEVER have given these tyrants the Games.
“I will not be watching the Olympics for the first time in my life.....and they are one sports event I truly enjoy.”
I haven’t watched those since Roy Jones jr got screwed by corrupt judges.
So Lennin was right that capitalists will sell the rope they will be hanged with?
That and this....
Not me. I would do my darnest to get first place. At the awards ceromony I would unfurl a litle banner saying "free Tibet you commie bastards". But that's just me.
I was just thinking how cool it would be to watch a Christian athlete hold a copy of the Holy Bible above his or her head while standing on the gold medal podium.
I hadn’t thought of that, but it’s a good point.
Alas, I was never “first place” material.
You know, of course, the headlines in the MSM would read the next day that there we were, insulting the host country and politicizing the games.
But I bet the Dali Llama would give us a blessing.
Britain kow tows to China as athletes are forced to sign no criticism contracts
ChiCom paranoia is enormous.
Something tells me there will not be an Olympics in China this year.
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