The Human Rights Society of China (HRSC) Friday slammed the United States for its support of the Dalai clique's separatist activities and interference in China's internal affairs.
Facts demonstrate that the Dalai Lama has become a tool of the US to "contain" China, says the HRSC in an article titled "Looking into US Support for Dalai Clique's Separatist Activities."
With the support of the anti-China forces in the United States and other Western countries, the Dalai clique has stepped up efforts to split Tibet from the motherland.
In disregard of China's strong opposition, US President Gorge W. Bush, Secretary of State Collin Powell and other senior officials met visiting Dalai Lama on separate occasions earlier this week, the US government appointed Undersecretary of State Paula Dobriansky as special coordinator for Tibetan affairs, and the US Congress introduced a so-called Tibetan policy bill.
All this has constituted gross violation of China's internal affairs, aroused great indignation of the Chinese people, including the Tibetan people, and brought to the attention of the people around the world, the article says.
The 9,000-Chinese character article consists of three parts: an account of the long history of the US' support for Tibet separatist forces and its instigation of Tibetan independence; the ways and means the US has taken to back the separatist activities of the Dalai clique; and the ulterior motives of the U. S. in support of the Dalai clique.
The United States began to interfere in Tibetan affairs long time ago, the article says.
Since the 1940s, the United States has intensified, step by step, its instigation and support of ethnic separatist activities launched by the upper class of the Tibetan aristocrats, according to the article.
The HRSC article says the United States has eventually walked from behind the scenes to instigate and support activities aimed at splitting Tibet from China.
In the late 1940s, the US government abetted the separatist forces in Tibet to participate in a Pan-Asian conference in India as "an independent state," and instigated the upper-class separatist forces to expel Han Chinese residents from Tibet in a bid to separate the region from China, says the article.
In 1950s and 1960s, the United States backed and instigated the upper-class reactionary forces in Tibet to prevent by force the Chinese People's Liberation Army from liberating Tibet, and planned three times for the Dalai Lama to flee overseas, it says, adding that the US later helped the Dalai clique set up armed forces so that they may fight their way back to Tibet.
Citing reports by US publications, including the news magazine Newsweek, the article says the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was responsible for instigating the 1959 armed rebellion by separatists in Tibet and the Dalai Lama fleeing Tibet.
The CIA offered financial assistance and weapons to the Dalai clique, as well as military training to its armed personnel. It also sent spy planes to Tibet to provide air cover and parachute food and other materials for the separatists, says the article.
Since 1979, when the US gave the green light to the Dalai Lama to conduct activities in the United States, the US government, out of its anti-China needs, has listed the so-called Tibetan issue as an important part of its strategy to "contain" China, supporting the Dalai clique's separatist activities in a flagrant way.
The article gives a detailed account of the six major ways the US has employed to support the Dalai clique's activities for Tibetan independence, including the arrangement for increasingly frequent meetings between US presidents and other key political figures and the Dalai Lama in the US, using religion as a cover.
It accuses the US State Department of approving the establishment of two offices of the Dalai clique in Washington and New York, respectively, and of appointing senior officials as the so-called special coordinators for Tibetan affairs.
To support the Dalai clique's separatist activities, the article says, the anti-China elements in the US Congress and some state legislators have produced dozens of amendments and bills, asserting "Tibet was an occupied country."
The United States also used various institutions or so-called non-governmental organizations to advocate and support "Tibetan independence" under the cover of "democracy, freedom and human rights," says the article.
It also accuses the US of using and financing some media to give publicity in support of the separatist activities of the Dalai clique.
The United States has also been providing financial assistance to support the Dalai clique's separatist activities, the article says, adding that the secret funding arrangements were often disclosed by the press from time to time.
The article says the US'instigation and support of the Dalai clique's separatist activities runs against the commitment of the US government that Tibet is part of China and the United States will not support Tibetan independence.
Proceeding from the fundamental interest of both the Chinese and American people and Sino-US relations, the United States should stop its instigation and support of the Dalai clique's activities to separate Tibet from China, the article says.
(xinhua 05/25/2001)
