鼓吹暴力只能使达赖集团加快覆灭

■ 益多

鼓吹暴力只能使达赖集团加快覆灭

■ 益多

今年以来，有的省藏区个别地方发生几起自焚和打砸抢事件。达赖集团再度兴奋起来，极力渲染藏区“局势紧张”，先是2月8日发动“全球烛光夜活动”进行“声援”；继而威胁全体藏人“不过藏历新年”，更游说西方国家派“真相观察团”到藏区“调查”。随着3月到来，达赖集团照例开始鼓吹新一轮“西藏人民起义”，期盼藏区“将出现更多流血事件”。虽然这一系列举动并没有什么新意，境内外响应者寥寥，但其中显露达赖集团分裂主义更趋于极端和暴力，却值得人们关注和警惕。

鼓吹“自焚”凸显“藏独”焦虑

达赖集团煽动策划自焚由来已久。2001年我国政府有关部门破获一起达赖集团派遣人员在西藏自焚未遂案，并由新华社公开报道，详细讲述了青海籍某僧人非法出境后，达赖集团“安全部”、“三区联合会”诱骗、策划、组织其进行“自焚”的全过程。达赖集团避之唯恐不及，其“新闻和国际关系部”马上发表声明予以否认，称“整个西藏运动的信誉是以达赖喇嘛所倡导的非暴力原则为基础的。派人到西藏去自焚是违背藏传佛教教义的。佛教认为，杀生尤其是自杀是一种非常不好的行为。”声明还进一步“表白”说，1998年曾有一位藏人在新德里自焚，“达赖喇嘛强烈反对这种行为，并敦促所有藏人在将来都不要采取这种行为”。

然而十年后的2011年藏区个别地方再次发生自焚事件，达赖及其集团的公开态度完全改变。达赖不仅不表示反对，而且亲自举行“特殊法会”并领头绝食一天，以表示对自焚事件的声援。“流亡政府”和各“藏独”组织头目纷纷发表声明，将自焚者称为“民族英雄”，称自焚是“积累功德”，自焚者“将转世为活佛”。近日，“自由西藏学生运动”举行会议，称“为独立大局牺牲自我是佛法最提倡的教义”。阿坝县格尔登寺多次发生自焚事件，其外逃的格尔登活佛去年11月11日在美国对媒体宣称，“选择自焚手段是佛教提倡的利他精神”。境外“格尔登寺新闻联络小组”在接受采访时妄称，“自焚浪潮已经不可能回头”，叫嚣“流亡藏人要保证自焚者的牺牲不会白费”。

笔者早就指出，达赖为了实现其“西藏独立”的目标，半个多世纪来一直就是暴力与“非暴力”两手交替使用。现在达赖集团从10年前躲避催生暴力的责任，转为公开号召使用暴力，不惜把藏传佛教变成“自焚教”，不是说明他的力量增强了，而是说明他的“非暴力”一手失灵，不得不重新公开乞灵于暴力。

“藏独”为煽动造势不择手段

2月4日，达赖集团挪威“西藏之声”、“自由亚洲电台”等多家境外媒体有鼻子有眼地报道：“四川甘孜色达县普吾乡雪桑村60岁的藏人擦才次仁、本旭村30岁的藏人嘉日，以及另外一名藏人自焚，1死2重 伤。”随后2月6日，达赖集团“新闻与国际关系部”专门举行记者招待会，“对事件表示痛心”，宣称“要利用国际舞台将境内自焚示威藏人的诉求传达给世人”。2月7日，达赖集团的重要“喉舌”以《泪!色达县3位藏人3日自焚》的煽情标题在网上对此大加炒作，并称此消息“得到境内藏人证实”。然而到2月16日，达赖集团媒体却在人们追究下不得不灰灰溜溜地小声承认，此事件“至今无法确认”，只是个“传闻”。而那位“喉舌”还唯恐读者不乐，自己盘问自己：“这3位色达藏人在2月3日那天，究竟是以身自焚了，还是准备以身自焚呢？”这个大大的问号正好暴露了造谣者唯恐天下不乱的真实心态和丑恶嘴脸，也提醒一切善良的人们，不要指望达赖一伙多少会有几句真话。

“流亡政府”新头目走上煽动暴力前台

去年达赖宣布“退休”，退出“政务活动”，把权力交给“民选”的“流亡政府”，以便把精力更多用于幕后操控和寻求国际支持。此举马上召来达赖集团内部权力争斗，一些派别为取悦达赖，急于通过在境内制造事件来显示实力，巩固自身地位，这也促使分裂活动的极端、暴力色彩迅速增强。“流亡政府”新头目志大才疏，为避免落在人后，上台伊始就在一次演讲中向世人和盘托出达赖的底牌：“‘西藏独立’是原则目标，‘西藏自治’是现实目标”，弄得达赖一点回旋余地也没有了。今年1月21日接受媒体采访时更宣称，“达赖喇嘛将政治权力转交给我之后，我就成了西藏人民的政治领导人”，俨然已经把这个集团的其他任何人都不放在眼里。为了显示政绩，此人以“流亡政府”名义多次发表声明，为所谓“死难者”举行“祈福法会”，于藏历新年初一发表声明，要求境内外藏人“不要庆祝今年的藏历新年，应到寺庙为境内的死难者祈祷”，更在各种场合挑唆藏人自焚，声称“自焚能够引起外界对西藏人民苦难的关注”，“藏人希望有更直接、更迅速见效的办法”，“要牢记自焚藏人的宏愿，并将实现这一宏愿作为毕生的奋斗目标”。

有趣的是，在2月14日接受美联社采访时，此人大白天说梦话：“即将到来的2月22日藏历新年，很可能会发生和1959年3月10日那天‘起义’活动相似的情况，出现藏人上街的场面”。2月22日已过去好些天了，笔者不知这位美国哈佛大学高材生的美梦做完了没有!

西方某些势力 公然支持达赖集团暴力倾向

达赖集团流亡境外几十年，靠的就是美国和西方一些势力支持。如果不能破坏藏区稳定，不能为西方势力干涉中国内政、遏制中国发展提供借口，西方就不会给钱，这个集团也就失去了活命的依靠。为此，近期达赖集团加紧游说西方“关注西藏目前的紧张局势”。“流亡政府”新头目在接受澳大利亚媒体采访时百般哀求“澳大利亚政府或美国政府派代表团到西藏，调查正在发生的事情”。“流亡议会”在藏历新年声明中提出“七点紧急呼吁”，头两条就是中国“从藏区撤出军队”，“允许独立人士的代表前往藏区调查当地实际情况”。

一些西方势力和媒体似乎也忘记了他们在拉萨“3·14”事件中歪曲报道激怒全体中国人民的教训，又不断发出“中国藏区动乱加剧”、“中国藏人在严密戒备下过藏历新年”等耸人听闻的报道，甚至再次上演“移花接木”的一幕：1月28日《纽约时报》以“汉人镇压和封锁种族骚乱”为题的报道中，配有一幅“全副武装的中国军人在成都巡逻”的彩色照片，实际上这幅照片的场景根本不在成都。法国“十字架报”在藏历新年之际发表对“支持达赖喇嘛政治斗争组织”创始人的专访，这位洋人大讲“‘自焚’是光明的祭品，从而对于其他人来说可以变成光明的迹象，以期使人类从无知中得以净化并帮其走上智慧与觉悟之路”，“对于藏人来说，自焚是爱与和平的行动”。笔者不由得要问：既然自焚如此美好，为何达赖、“流亡政府”头目以及你自己不自焚？笔者当然不是要鼓动这伙人也自焚，好赖是条性命嘛，笔者只是要指出，如此爱惜自己的生命而鼓励他人自焚，是不是太卑鄙点儿了？

与此同时，国际上也出现了许多对达赖集团暴力趋势质疑的声音。2月13日，《多维新闻》连续发表文章，指出“西藏流亡政府对自焚这种极端行为正在采取一种纵容的态度，让这种暴力抗争处于有意无意的‘失控’状态，长此以往，一部分流亡藏人将不可避免地走上恐怖主义路线，他们原本能够在国际上争取到的一点支持，也将逐渐失去”；新头目“似乎有意挑起事端、制造声势，对北京政府施加压力。西方政客害怕现阶段这种急剧升温的暴力倾向有朝一日可能会越来越‘恐怖’，累及自己声名，因此对其进行冷处理。”

所谓“非暴力”是达赖在国际上自我标榜、争取同情的旗号，但查查达赖的分裂主义活动史，1959年发动武装叛乱，此后发动长达十几年的边境武装袭扰,1987至1989年制造拉萨骚乱，2008年制造拉萨“3·14”事件，哪一次不使用暴力？达赖已经77岁，“藏独”事业没有任何成果，为摆脱政治上的困境，这个集团公开叫嚣“西藏独立”的声音重新上升，极端、暴力手段的运用日益强化，企图以此吸引国际关注，向中国政府施压。但是，达赖的暴力一套过去没有赢过，今后也不会赢。在今天公开搞暴力，更形同“政治自杀”。当前，西藏和四省藏区经济发展、社会稳定，人民安居乐业，僧俗各界对达赖集团暴力行径极度憎恶，坚决反对。达赖的表演除了在国际社会上撕去他自己的“非暴力”伪装，不会取得他幻想的任何效果。

Since the beginning of this year, a number of incidents of self-immolation and vandalism have occurred in a few Tibetan areas in some provinces.The Dalai Lama clique became even more excited and exaggerated matters in Tibetan areas by calling the situation tense. On February 8, it instigated “worldwide evening candlelight activities in “support” of the propagators. Then the Dalai Lama threateningly advised all Tibetans to not celebrate the Tibetan New Year and lobbied Western countries to send teams of observers to investigate the situation in Tibetan areas. Beginning in early March, the Dalai Lama clique began advocating a “Tibetan people’s uprising” as it does every year at this time in the hope of inciting more bloody incidents in Tibetan areas. Even though there was nothing new in this series of actions and they received only scattered responses at home and abroad, they reveal that the Dalai Lama clique’s separatist stance has become more extreme and violent, and this fact deserves our attention and vigilance.

The advocacy of self-immolation highlightsthe desperation of the “Tibet independence” stance

The Dalai Lama clique’s tactic of inciting selfimmolation has a long history. In 2001, security organs of the Chinese government uncovered a plot of the Dalai Lama clique to send people to Tibet to immolate themselves. This was reported in a story carried by Xinhua News Agency, which also reported that a monk from Qinghai Province illegally went abroad, after which the Dalai Lama clique lured him into agreeing to immolate himself and drew up a detailed plan for carrying it out. The Dalai Lama clique’s “Information and International Relations Department” immediately issued a press release stating, “The credibility of all the activities we carry out in Tibet is premised on the principle of nonviolence that the Dalai Lama advocates.Buddhism believes that killing any living thing, and especially suicide, is very wrong.” The statement further“confessed” that in 1998 a Tibetan immolated himself in New Delhi, and “The Dalai Lama strongly opposed this action and urged all Tibetans not to do so in the future.”

However, ten years later in 2011, when a number of self-immolations again occurred in a few Tibetan areas, the attitude of the Dalai Lama and his clique had changed completely. The Dalai Lama not only didn’t express his disapproval of them, but also held a special Buddhist ceremony and took the lead in fasting for a day to express his support for the incidents. The Tibetan“government in exile” and heads of various “Tibet independence” organizations all issued statements calling those who immolated themselves “national heroes,”calling self-immolation a way to “accumulate spiritual merit for future lives,” and claiming that those who immolate themselves will “be living Buddhas in their next life.” Recently, the “Free Tibet Students Movement”held a meeting at which it stated “Sacrificing oneself for a greater cause is a basic doctrine of Buddhism.”A number of self-immolations have occurred at Kirti Monastery in Aba County, Sichuan. Its living Buddha has fl ed abroad, and on November 11, he declared to the media in the United States, “Choosing self-immolation is a form of altruism that Buddhism advocates.” The Kirti Monastery News Liaison Group” overseas made the preposterous claim to the media, “The tide of selfimmolation cannot be turned back,” and boasted,“Tibetans in exile will make sure that the sacri fi ce those who immolated themselves made will not be in vain.”

I have stated before that for more than 50 years, the Dalai Lama has alternately used violent and nonviolent means to achieve his goal of “Tibet independence.”Today the Dalai Lama clique has abandoned its position of ten years ago to avoid inciting violence, and it now openly calls for violence and has no misgivings about turning Tibetan Buddhism into a “self-immolation religion.” This does not show that the clique is becoming stronger; rather it shows that its “nonviolence” is ineffective and it has no alternative but to resort to violence again.

Publicity stunts promoting “Tibet independence”

On February 4, the Dalai Lama clique’s overseas news outlets such as the “Voice of Tibet” and “Radio Free Asia” located in Norway fabricated a selfimmolation report asserting, “Three Tibetans from Seda County, Sichuan immolated themselves. They were 60-year-old Cacai Ciren from Xuesang village, 30-yearold Jiari from Benxu village, and a third unidentified person. One of them is dead and the other two were seriously injured.” Subsequently the Dalai Lama clique’s“Information and International Relations Department”held a press conference to “express its sympathy”concerning the situation and declared, “It is necessary to use an international platform to transmit the grievances of the Tibetans who immolated themselves to the world.” On February 7, the main “spokesman” of the Dalai Lama clique fanned the fl ames in an online article entitled “We Grieve for the Three Tibetans from Seda County Who Immolated Themselves on February 3,”in which he claimed the assertions were corroborated by Tibetans in China. Then on February 16, when others pursued the issue further, the Dalai Lama clique’s media had no alternative but to dejectedly and meekly admit “this incident cannot be con fi rmed” and it is just“hearsay.” The Dalai Lama clique’s spokesman tried to keep his hooks in his readers by asking rhetorically, “Did the three Tibetans from Seda County actually immolate themselves or merely prepare to do so?” This large question mark reveals the rumormongers’ despicable nature and their desire to stir up trouble, and warns every good-natured person not to expect to hear the truth from the Dalai Lama clique.

The new head of the “government in exile” takes the path of inciting violence

Last year, the Dalai Lama declared he would “retire”from “political activities” and turn power over to an“elected” “government in exile” in order to more freely manipulate behind the scenes and seek international support. This move immediately set off a power struggle within the Dalai Lama clique, and some factions rushed to instigate incidents within China for the purpose of ingratiating themselves with the Dalai Lama and consolidating their position, with the result that separatist activities became more extreme and more violent.The new head of the “government in exile” is very ambitious but of limited talent. Shortly after assuming his new position he revealed the Dalai Lama’s position to the world in a speech, saying “’Tibet independence’is our principled objective; ‘Tibetan autonomy’ is our practical objective.” This left the Dalai Lama with no room to maneuver. In an interview with news media on January 21, he further claimed, “After the Dalai Lama turns political power over to me, I will be the political leader of the Tibetan people,” as if he already completely disregarded everyone else in the clique. In order to show off his political accomplishments, this individual made political statements in the name of the “government in exile” on numerous occasions, held Buddhist ceremonies to bless the so-called victims, made a public statement on the fi rst day of the Tibetan New Year, asked Tibetans in China and abroad “not to celebrate Tibetan New Year this year, but instead go to temples to pray for the victims in China,” and took every opportunity available to encourage Tibetans to immolate themselves. He also asserted “self-immolation will make the outside world aware of the Tibetan people’s suffering”; “Tibetans want a more direct, faster and more effective method”; and“We need to remember the aspirations of the people who immolated themselves, and take bringing their aspirations to reality as our goal in a lifelong struggle.”

It is interesting that in an interview with the Associated Press on February 14, this individual candidly revealed his delusions, saying “It’s quite possible that on February 22, Tibetan New Year, Tibetans will take to the streets and launch a rebellion on the scale of the March 10, 1959, rebellion.” February 22 has already come and gone, and I don’t know if this Harvard graduate is still indulging in this fantasy.

Some Western forces openly supportthe Dalai Lama clique’s inclination to violence

The Dalai Lama fled abroad several decades ago,and ever since he has relied on the support of forces in the United States and other Western countries. If he did not provide a pretext for them to undermine the stability of Tibet, interfere in China’s internal affairs and hinder China’s development, they would not give him any money and the Dalai Lama clique would have no means to survive. For this reason, the Dalai Lama clique has recently intensified its lobbying to get the West to “pay more attention to the tense situation in Tibet.” The new head of the Tibetan “government in exile” made an impassioned plea during an interview with Australian media for “the Australian government or the American government to send a delegation to Tibet to investigate the situation there.” In its Tibetan New Year’s statement, the “government in exile” set forth“seven urgent appeals,” the fi rst two of which were for“China to remove its troops from Tibetan areas” and “to allow independent individuals to go to Tibetan regions to investigate the situation.”

Some Western forces and media seemingly forget the lesson that their distorted reports on the March 14 Incident in Lhasa infuriated all the people of China, and they still constantly issue sensational reports to the effect that “chaos is intensifying in Tibetan areas of China”and “Tibetans are celebrating Tibetan New Year under martial law,” and on some occasions, distortion has bordered on total fabrication. A report in the January 28 New York Times under the heading “Han Chinese Suppress and Confine Ethnic Riots” was accompanied by a color photo with the caption “Fully armed Chinese soldiers patrolling Chengdu.” In fact, the photo wasn’t shot in Chengdu at all. The French newspaper La Croix published an interview with the founder of a French organization devoted to supporting the political struggle of the Dalai Lama on the eve of the Tibetan New Year.This Westerner spoke of self-immolation as if it were a kind of holy light. He went on to say that it could “become a signpost that could lead human beings from ignorance and purify themselves so that could take the path of wisdom and enlightenment.” He also said, “For Tibetans,self-immolation is an act of love and peace.” I can’t help but asking, If self-immolation is so wonderful why don’t you and the head of the “government in exile” immolate yourselves? Of course, my purpose is not to encourage this individual to immolate himself, and I just want to point out that to cherish one’s own life while encouraging others to immolate themselves is contemptible.

At the same time, very many people abroad have questioned the Dalai Lama clique’s inclination to violence. On February 3, Chinese Media Net, Inc.published an article stating, “The Tibetan ‘government in exile’ presently takes the attitude of conniving at the extreme action of self-immolation, which intentionally or unintentionally lets this kind of violent protest get out of control. If this goes on unchecked some Tibetans in exile will inevitably take the path of terrorism, and if they do they will gradually lose the support they have in the international community.” It goes on to say that the new head of the “government in exile” “seemingly is deliberately inciting incidents to create momentum to increase the pressure on the government in Beijing.Western politicians fear that if the present situation heats up and the violence increases, it could lead to terrorism and tarnish their reputation, so they want to cool things down.”

The Dalai Lama flaunts his profession of nonviolence in the international arena to attract sympathy,but an examination of his separatist activities reveals that in 1959 he instigated an armed rebellion, and afterwards he carried out armed border raids for more than ten years.He was behind the riots in Lhasa in 1987 and 1989 and the March 14 incident in 2008. All of them involved violence. The Dalai Lama is already 77 years old, and his separatist activities haven’t achieved any success whatsoever. In order to escape its present political dif fi culties, the Dalai Lama clique again began clamoring for “Tibet independence,” and has increasingly relied on extremist and violent methods in the effort to attract international sympathy and support and increase the pressure on the Chinese government. However, in the past the Dalai Lama’s violence has never succeeded in achieving his aims, and it won’t succeed this time either. Today, openly resorting to violence would result in political suicide. At present Tibet and the Tibetan areas in four other provinces are undergoing economic development and are enjoying political stability. The people have good jobs and live a satisfying life. Both clergy and lay persons loathe the violent actions of the Dalai Lama clique and firmly oppose them. The Dalai Lama’s posturing will not achieve any of the results he fantasizes about; all it does is strip off his façade and expose his true nature to the international community.

ADVOCATING VIOLENCE CAN ONLY HASTEN THE DESTRUCTION OF THE DALAI LAMA CLIQUE

■ Yi Duo