Commentary: Playing with outside forces, "religious figure" stakes heavy on de facto secession

Source: Xinhua | 03-10-2009 09:22

BEIJING, March 9 (Xinhua) -- As the anniversary of his exile approaches, more evidence has surfaced that the Dalai Lama and his followers have pursued a long road of splitting up the homeland despite allegations of the "nonviolent" middle way.

Explicitly acknowledging his "middle way" of nonviolence a failure, the 73-year-old Tibetan Buddhist warned the Chinese government of possible future confrontations in the Himalayan region.

The confrontations might come from his closeness with the terrorist-natured Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC), which is based in India. Well-advised people would no longer believe the Dalai Lama and his supporters are innocent after the TYC was found to take part in plotting the March 14 riot in Lhasa last year with aid from outside forces.

The Dalai Lama, while pretending to be a purely religious figure, has never stopped reaching his hands beyond sermon since he left his homeland. More declassified files have supported evidence of foreign influence over Tibet.

He had actively contacted the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)via middlemen, which resulted in a CIA-backed insurrection that triggered his exile fifty years ago.

According to the CIA Briefings to Presidential Candidates 1952-1992, along with other secrete operations in Venezuela and the Dominican Republic, "Agency activities in Tibet were also a discrete item" around 1959, during the Kennedy Administration.

A report released on www.opensecrets.org shows that the International Campaign for Tibet (ICT), a pro-independence advocacy group, has spent more than 552,000 U.S. dollars in the past decades lobbying the U.S. Congress and other agencies to press the alleged Tibetan issues.