China Accuses Dalai Lama Of Collaborating With The CIA
Komfie Manalo - All Headline News Foreign Correspondent Beijing, China (AHN) - Beijing is accusing Tibet exiled leader, the Dalai Lama of links with the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Official commentary published Wednesday in the pro-Beijing newspaper, the China Daily, reject's the Dalai Lama's proposal of a "Middle Way" policy which seeks autonomy but not independence for Tibet. The commentary said, "In the name of 'organizing armed troops to fight their way back into Tibet', he collaborated with the Indian military and American CIA to organize the 'Indian Tibetan special border troops'." The Dalai Lama fled his homeland in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule. He has since lived in exile in India. In 1997, the Chicago Tribune reported the CIA trained up to 400 Tibetan exiles at military bases in Colorado, Okinawa and Guam after the Dalai Lama's departure as part of a US-funded guerrilla war against China, which annexed Tibet in 1950. The guerrillas were air lifted back into Tibet where they waged an unsuccessful campaign against the communist. The commentary accused the Dalai Lama of organizing a rebel army in Nepal and funding organizations and offices abroad to promote separatism. It continued, "What he pursues is a swindle and nothing stands between his 'high-level autonomy' and 'Tibetan independence'."
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