| A: Since the Dalai Lama fled abroad in 1959, he has been engaged in activities that split the motherland and sabotage national unity, despite claiming to advocate "non-violence." In 1959 the Dalai Clique staged an armed rebellion in Tibet. The rioters robbed monasteries of jewelry, valuable Buddhist statuary and other treasures, killed Tibetan cadres, and plundered property. After the failure of this rebellion, the self-exiled Tibetan separatists organized armed forces, and began making raids on Tibetan border areas, harassing, sabotaging, severely threatening and harming the lives and property of local Tibetans, and disturbing public order. During the disturbances instigated by a handful of separatists in Lhasa in September 1987, rioters severely disrupted the daily life of the city's residents with their destruction, sabotage, burning and killing. Their violence caused enormous losses, both in terms of people's lives and their property. In the face of such violent terrorism, the Dalai Lama can hardly lay the blame on someone else, and how can this be called "non-violence"? |
