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China accuses Tibetan group of al Qaeda links
Published on Tue, May 06, 2008 at 14:48 in World section
Tags: Tibet Protests, China Talks , Beijing
ONUS ON DALAI: China asked the Dalai Lama to make "credible moves" to stop the violence.
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Beijing: Beijing on Monday intensified its attack on the monk accusing him of committing 'monstrous crimes' and 'fraud' and alleged that a Tibetan outfit based in India had links with terror group al-Qaeda.
The Dalai Lama's two envoys Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen returned to India from talks with nothing more than an assurance from Beijing to hold the next round of dialogue at "an appropriate time".
At the meeting, the first after the unrest erupted in Tibet posing the most serious challenge to Beijing in the last two decades, China did some tough talking asking the Dalai Lama to make "credible moves" to stop violence and not to "sabotage" the Beijing Olympics to create conditions for the next round of parleys.
"Following the March 14 incident in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama has not only refused to admit his monstrous crimes, but also has continued to perpetuate fraud," the official Tibet Daily said.
Dismissing the Tibetan leader's talk about "genuine autonomy" and "greater Tibet region" as "fraudulent", the newspaper accused the "Dalai clique" of trying to confuse public opinion and trying to "incite ethnic hatred".
Describing the Dharamshala-based Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) as the "armed spearhead of the 14th Dalai Lama group", the state-run Xinhua news agency said, "TYC has become a terrorist organisation."
"They (TYC) had also sought mutual support from international terrorist organisations such as al Qaeda and East Turkistan groups," Liu Hongji, expert at China Tibetology Research Centre in Beijing, was quoted as saying.
The 72-year old Nobel laureate living in exile in India, who has targeted by China for allegedly "masterminding" the violence, has insisted that he only wants greater autonomy for Tibet and is not asking for its independence.
Refusing to divulge much about the talks, the Tibetan government-in-exile said the Dalai Lama's envoys will arrive in Dharamshala on Wednesday to brief him.
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Haha,the Chinese seem to have decided to provide the entire world with a joke every day!Comparing the Tibetan groups to
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So now according to China Al- Qaeda members includes Nobel laureates too.
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