Special Report:
Serfs Emancipation
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Special Report:
Focus on Tibet
by Chinese media writers Lin Jianyang and Chang Ailing
BEIJING, March 13 (Chinese media) -- "Hell on earth" suits
perfectly the old Tibet, a Tibet official said here Friday, refuting the Dalai
Lama's speech made 50 years after he went into exile.
Over the past 50 years, the Dalai Lama has made it a
routine to deliver a speech on the so-called "uprising" day, or, as described by
the Chinese government, the day marking his failed armed rebellion.
Qiangba Puncog (C), deputy to the Second
Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC) from southwest
China's Tibet Autonomous Region, receives interview prior to the third
plenary meeting of the Second Session of the 11th NPC held at the Great
Hall of the People in Beijing, capital of China, March 10, 2009.
(Chinese media Photo)
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On March 10 this year, the "simple Buddhist monk",
who has never been to Tibet since 1959, said the Chinese government have carried
out a series of "repressive and violent" campaigns over the years and Tibetans
were "literally experienced hell on earth."
"If 'hell on earth' was used to describe the old
Tibet, it would be most appropriate," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet
regional government, told Chinese media.
"The Dalai Lama is trying to turn black into white in
an attempt to mislead the public," he said.
Qiangba, who was born to an impoverished Tibetan
family 62 years ago, said "the old Tibet, which was under the control of the
Dalai Lama, was a feudal serfdom darker and more undeveloped than the middle
ages in Europe."
The official said Tibet has enjoyed significant
development over the past 5 decades and "those who are unbiased or have been to
Tibet would be well aware of that."
Although some people claimed before 1959, ordinary
Tibetan people could enjoy milk tea as they wished and a great deal of meat and
vegetables, American Tibetologist A. Tom Grunfeld said after a 1940 survey
conducted in eastern Tibet that "there is no evidence to support the picture of
Tibet as a Utopian Shangrila."
The survey found that 38 percent of Tibetan families
never had tea to drink, 51 percent could not afford butter and 75 percent
sometimes had to eat weeds boiled with ox bones and oat or bean flour.
In his speech, the Dalai Lama defended his armed
rebellion, saying that it was because of the Communist Party of China's trial of
democratic reform that forced Tibetans to launch a "peaceful uprising."
Qiangba refuted the Dalai Lama's claim, saying that
the essential cause of the rebellion was because the upper ruling class of the
Dalai Lama group realized that the democratic reform, which was imperative under
the situation, would lead to the end of feudal serfdom and the emancipation of
serfs.
"The democratic reform, which was carried out in
places outside Tibet then, put an end to the rule and privileges of the three
major feudal lords (government officials, monasteries and nobles) there,"
Qiangba said.
"The reform put the feudal lords in Tibet in panic.
Under that situation, they chose to launch an armed rebellion," said he.
Feudal serfdom was overthrown in most countries in
the 19th centuries but the system remained in Tibet till the mid 20th century.
"The democratic reform carried out by the Communist
Party of China aimed to free the serfs and slaves in Tibet," said Qiangba, also
a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC).
Since the democratic reform, Tibet has undergone
significant changes. Its GDP grew from 174 million yuan (25.6 million U.S.
dollars) in 1959 to 39.591 billion yuan last year.
Looking back into history, Qiangba said Tibet did
experience twists in its development after 1959, such as the cultural revolution
(1966-1976) and communes.
But Qiangba said those problems happened at a special
stage in the Chinese history and affected the whole country. "They were not
problems only with Tibet," he said.
Dalai Lama's utter distortion of Tibet
history
BEIJING, March 10
(Chinese media) -- On March 10, 1959, the Dalai Lama and his supporters started an
armed rebellion in a desperate attempt to preserve Tibet's feudal serfdom and
split the region from China.
On Tuesday, exactly 50 years later, the Dalai Lama claimed
that Tibetans have been living in "hell on earth," as if the Tibet under the
former feudal serfdom ruled by him were a heaven.
Playing with outside forces,
"religious figure" stakes heavy on de facto
secession
BEIJING, March 9
(Chinese media) -- As the anniversary of his exile approaches, more evidence has
surfaced that the Dalai Lama and his followers have pursued a long road of
splitting up the homeland despite allegations of the "nonviolent" middle way.
Explicitly acknowledging his "middle way" of nonviolence a
failure, the 73-year-old Tibetan Buddhist warned the Chinese government of
possible future confrontations in the Himalayan region. Full story
Dalai by no means a religious figure,
but a political one
BEIJING, March 7 (Chinese media) -- The Dalai Lama is "by no
means a religious figure, but a political figure," Chinese Foreign Minister Yang
Jiechi said here Saturday.
The Dalai Lama and his followers insist to establish the
so-called "Greater Tibet" on one quarter of the Chinese territory. They want to
drive away the Chinese armed forces deployed on its own territory, and all the
Chinese people of other ethnic groups who have been living in Tibet for
generations, Yang told a press conference on the sidelines of the annual
parliamentary session.
Dalai Lama is not qualified for
talking about human rights
BEIJING, March 6 (Chinese media) -- As the most unstable element
for Tibet and representative of serf owners, the Dalai Lama is not qualified for
talking about human rights, said a senior official here Friday afternoon.
"There is no historical evidence or present ground for the
so called 'Greater Tibet' and 'high degree of autonomy', which are also against
the will of the Tibetan people," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet
Autonomous Region, told a press conference on sideline with the annual session
of the National People's Congress (NPC).
Dalai Lama group's sabotage biggest
obstacle to Tibet's development
BEIJING, March 6 (Chinese media) -- Sabotage from the Dalai Lama
group remains the biggest obstacle in the way of Tibet's development, Lhasa
Mayor Doje Cezhug said Friday.
Doje made the remarks at a panel discussion of lawmakers
from Tibet.
A POLITICIAN lN MONK'S ROBE
In the March 10 speech, the Dalai Lama said he has
three commitments as a human being, "the promotion of human values," "the
promotion of inter-religious harmony" and "the issue of Tibet."
"No one opposes the promotion of human values and
inter-religious harmony. The Communist Party of China is also working for it,"
Qiangba said.
Promoting religious harmony is the policy of the
Party and the country, Qiangba said.
Most of the people of the Tibetan, Moinba, Lhoba and
Naxi ethnic groups believe in Tibetan Buddhism, while others believe in Islam
and Catholicism.
"There have been no religious conflicts in Tibet and
those religions coexisted harmoniously," he said.
The official said it was the Dalai Lama who harmed
the harmony between different religious sects by telling Buddhists to worship
one and not to worship another.
Meanwhile, the official said the Dalai Lama is least
qualified to talk about human rights.
"The darkest period in Tibet in terms of human rights
was the time when he was in power," he said.
As for Dalai Lama's third commitment, Qingba said the
so-called "issue of Tibet" was coined by the Dalai Lama group and some countries
out of the concern of their own interests.
"They are playing up the 'issue of Tibet' to make
their separatist activity an international issue and draw criticism to China
from those who are unaware of the truth," he said.
Qiangba said the Dalai Lama has been trying to split
China and instigate violence under the aureole of "human rights" and
"democracy."
"The Dalai Lama is a politician in monk's robe. He is
a key obstacle of Tibet's development," he said.
As for Dalai Lama's claim of "middle way", "the
greater Tibet" and "high degree of autonomy," Qiangba said those are meant for
"gradual or covert Tibet independence."
"Since the title of the Dalai Lama was confirmed, the
Dalai Lama had never effectively ruled other Tibetan populated areas (outside
Tibet)," he said.
He said Dalai Lama's claim to set up a so-called
"greater Tibet" on one fourth of China's territory did not exist in history, nor
does it have an actual ground.
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