Special Report: Focus on Tibet　　

NPC,  CPPCC Annual Sessions 2009

    BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The setting of Serfs Emancipation Day is an important move to wage a "tit-for-tat struggle" against the Dalai clique, a senior Tibetan legislator said here Friday.

    "We'll, for a long period of time, face austere test in maintaining unification of the motherland, fighting ethnic splittism, and maintaining social stability," said Legqog, director of the Standing Committee of the Tibetan Autonomous Regional People's Congress, on the sidelines of the annual national parliament session in Beijing.

    "Since the Dalai Lama and his supporters failed in an armed rebellion and fled abroad 50 years ago, they have been dreaming of restoring the reactionary, dark, barbarian and backward feudal serfdom in Tibet, and they have never stopped activities to split the motherland and undermine ethnic unity," he said.

    Tibetan legislators endorsed a motion in January this year setting March 28 as Serfs Emancipation Day to commemorate the emancipation of millions of serfs and slaves in Tibet 50 years ago.

    In 1959, the central government foiled an armed rebellion staged by the Dalai Lama and his supporters.

    "The younger generation in Tibet may know little about history," he said.

    Serfs Emancipation Day would also help "remind the younger generation of the bitter past, and make them cherish today's development, changes and new life", he said.