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China in life, death struggle with Dalai Lama: media
Beijing (AFP) Feb 16, 2009 China's media stepped up its rhetoric against the exiled Dalai Lama Monday, saying the communist-led nation was in a life and death struggle with Tibetan separatist forces led by the spiritual leader. A strident editorial in the Tibetan Daily came only weeks ahead of the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising in Tibet that led to the exile of Dalai Lama, the Himalayan region's most revered spiritual leader. "Our fight against the Dalai clique and those western hostile forces that support him is not a question of ethnic nationality, religion or so-called human rights," said the editorial, which was also posted on the Communist Party's news website. "It is a life or death class struggle and a political battle between separatists and anti-separatists that is linked to the political foundation of the Communist Party, the unity of the motherland (and) the maintenance of social stability." The Dalai Lama last week called the situation in his homeland "very tense" as anger smoulders over what he described as ongoing heavy-handed Chinese tactics in response to unrest there last year. "At any moment there can be an outburst of violence," the 73-year-old monk said in the German town of Baden Baden. Anti-China upheaval erupted in the regional capital Lhasa last March and spread to Tibetan-populated regions in adjacent provinces. Tibet's government-in-exile said more than 200 Tibetans were killed and about 1,000 hurt in the subsequent Chinese crackdown. China has reported killing one Tibetan "insurgent" and says "rioters" were responsible for 21 deaths. Monday's editorial blamed the Dalai Lama for the unrest and called on the government and people of Tibet to unite with the party to fight against the him and his separatist followers campaigning for an independent Tibet. "The struggle against separatism is a long-term complicated task," the editorial said. "To fully and firmly make the fight against separatism and the maintenance of stability our top priority is to resolutely implement the party's policy on fighting the Dalai clique." Last week China's foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said the situation in Tibet was "stable," but declined to go into specifics. Chinese troops entered the devoutly Buddhist region in 1950 to "liberate" it from feudal rule, according to Beijing, but Chinese control there remains widely unpopular. Share This Article With Planet Earth
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