Special Report: Focus on Tibet¡¡
NPC, CPPCC Annual
Sessions 2009 ¡¡
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- As the most unstable
element for Tibet and representative of serf owners, the Dalai Lama is not
qualified for talking about human rights, said a senior official here Friday
afternoon.
"There is no historical evidence or present
ground for the so called 'Greater Tibet' and 'high degree of autonomy', which are
also against the will of the Tibetan people," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the
Tibet Autonomous Region, told a press conference on sideline of the annual session
of the National People's Congress (NPC).
"We should judge a man not only by his words, but
also by his deeds, " said the official, also a NPC deputy, stressing that what
Dalai Lama said was opposite to what he did.
Tibet official: March Lhasa riots
won't repeat
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- A senior Tibet
official said here Friday that the violent riots, which resulted in the death of
at least 18 civilians in Lhasa last March, won't repeat.
Although the riots have caused tremendous damage to the social and economic
development and people's life in Tibet, it did not change the fundamentals of
the steady development in Tibet," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet
Autonomous Region government, said. Full story
Tibet always open to foreign
reporters, but they have to be "objective"
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Tibet always
welcomes foreign reporters, but they have to work "in a just and objective way,"
a top Tibet official said here Friday afternoon.
"Our door is always open as long as the reporters conduct
their coverage in a just and objective way that is conducive to Tibet's social
and economic development," Qiangba Puncog, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous
Region government, told reporters after a panel discussion of lawmakers from
Tibet. Full story
Overall situation stable in
Tibet
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The overall situation in
Tibet is stable, one year after the March 14 riot, chairman of the regional
government, Qiangba Puncog, said here Friday.
"Although the riot has caused tremendous damage to the
social and economic development and people's life in Tibet, it did not change
the fundamentals of the steady development in Tibet," he told a panel discussion
of Tibet lawmakers at the ongoing annual session of the parliament. Full story
Dalai Lama group's sabotage biggest
obstacle to Tibet's development
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Sabotage from the Dalai Lama
group remains the biggest obstacle in the way of Tibet's development, Lhasa
Mayor Doje Cezhug said Friday.
Doje made the remarks at a panel discussion of lawmakers
from Tibet. Full story
Living Buddha: Replay of March Lhasa
riots impossible
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Separatists will find no room
to replay a scenario they plotted in the riots in Tibet last March, said a
Living Buddha on Friday.
There will be "no problems" of stability in Tibet this
year, as" a small group of secessionists who attempt to make troubles have
already lost social support," Chubakang Tubdain Kaizhub, chairman of the Tibet
Branch of the Buddhist Association of China (TBBAC), said on the sidelines of
the annual session of the country's top political advisory body. Full story
Setting of Serfs Emancipation Day
major move to fight Dalai
clique
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. Full story
Lhasa stable, recovering from riot,
says mayor
LHASA, March 6 (Xinhua) -- The social and economic
situations in Lhasa are turning for the better a year after violent riots
scarred the Himalayan city, said mayor Doje Cezhug Friday.
The city is now stable as economic and social situations
are turning for the better, Doje Cezhug told Xinhua on the sidelines of the
national parliament's annual meeting which started Thursday in Beijing. Full story
No martial law in Lhasa on "special"
days
BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Lhasa will have no martial
law but only usual, necessary security measures around the "special" days this
month, a top Tibet official said here Friday.
No extraordinary measures like the martial law will be
enforced in Lhasa but the city will take usual, necessary security measures
during the anniversaries of the riots last year and the democratic reform that
emancipated millions of serfs and slaves 50 years ago, Qiangba Puncog, chairman
of the Tibet Autonomous Region government, told reporters. Full story
