(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-04-01 20:24

In a statement issued on March 10, the "TYC" said, "Now we should grapple the most important chance, which never occurred before during our struggle for independence, the Olympic Games".

On the same day, after careful selection, 101 hardcore members set off from Dharamsala, where the "Tibetan government-in-exile" is based, to unleash the so-called "Tibetan people's uprising".

"Their careful organization and instigation finally 'paid back' with great loss of life and property in Lhasa on March 14," the article said.

During the unrest, 18 civilians and one policeman were killed and the violence spread to other Tibetan-inhabited regions in China.

In the following days, rioters attacked a dozen Chinese embassies and consulates, including those in the United States, India, Britain and France.

Under the backdrop of pervasive violence, the Dalai clique went on to advocate the boycott of the Beijing Olympic Games with their supporters in Western countries.

Towards the violence in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama acted in a puzzling manner, said the article.

On March 16, he told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) that he would not ask the rioters to stop. But two days later, he said at a press conference that he was in great sorrow and sympathy of the violence.

Compared with him, his supporters were more outspoken. Cewang Rigzin, the "TYC" president, said at a meeting on March 20 that the violence had "achieved its goal" to "awaken resistance among people in Tibet and attract high-profile international attention to the Tibet issue". But the struggle "will not stop and this incident is just the prelude of this year's fight".

"I guess this is what they really have in mind," the article said. "They just want to make the Olympic Games their hostage but not to be blamed for triggering violence."

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