April 1: A monk shouts slogans of "Free Tibet" as policemen try to disperse Tibetans protesting against China outside the Chinese Embassy in Katmandu.
Posted on 04/02/2008 12:59:51 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
China has branded the Dalai Lama a "wolf in monk's robes" and his followers the "scum of Buddhism." It stepped up the rhetoric Tuesday, accusing the Nobel Peace laureate and his supporters of planning suicide attacks.
The Tibetan government-in-exile swiftly denied the charge, and the Bush administration rushed to the Tibetan Buddhist leader's defense, calling him "a man of peace."
"There is absolutely no indication that he wants to do anything other than have a dialogue with China on how to discuss the serious issues there," State Department spokesman Tom Casey said.
Wu Heping, spokesman for China's Ministry of Public Security, claimed searches of monasteries in the Tibetan capital had turned up a large cache of weapons. They included 176 guns, 13,013 bullets, 7,725 pounds of explosives, 19,000 sticks of dynamite and 350 knives, he said.
"To our knowledge, the next plan of the Tibetan independence forces is to organize suicide squads to launch violent attacks," Wu told a news conference. "They claimed that they fear neither bloodshed nor sacrifice."
Wu provided no details or evidence. He used the term "gan si dui," a rarely used phrase directly translated as "dare-to-die corps." The official English version of his remarks translated the term as "suicide squads."
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This truly breaks my heart. Every day.
Gotta say, if it’s recognizing scum, the members of the leadership of China should be better at recognizing it than this. All they have to do is look in the mirror.
It [the ChiCom accusation] funny and sad [the fate of Tibetans]. The ChiComs really are delusional zombies. Not quite as bad as Islamofascists, but they are getting there.
It is disturbing and a little scary that Nepal has allowed Chinese troops in to help them “quell” the protests. Mostly it’s disturbing that India has shown no concern that PLA troops have been invited in to its neighbor Nepal.
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