The ruling Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper, the People’s Daily, said the Dalai Lama – a Nobel peace laureate – had never abandoned violence since fleeing China in 1959, after a failed revolt against Beijing.
“This incident again demonstrates that the so-called ‘peaceful non-violence’ of the Dalai clique is an outright lie from start to end,” the paper said. “The Dalai Lama is scheming to take the Beijing Olympics hostage to force the Chinese government to make concessions to Tibet independence.”
The paper earlier accused the Dalai Lama of planning terrorist attacks with the aid of Uighur separatists seeking an independent East Turkestan for their largely Muslim people in north-west China’s Xinjiang region.
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