'Self-immolation Guide': desperate insanity of the Dalai clique

The China Tibet Online, a multi-language media website dedicated to providing news stories on Tibetans living in China, has recently published a bylined opinion article on the "Self-immolation Guide," produced by the Dalai Lama clique.

Following is the full text of the article in English:

"Self-immolation Guide": desperate insanity of the Dalai clique

By Yi Duo

Recently, the Dalai clique published a "Self-immolation Guide" on the Internet, openly inciting Tibetans within the Chinese border to "carry out self-immolations according to the plan and procedures."

The "Self-immolation Guide" demonstrates a sober attitude in scheming and arranging the cruel actions of self-immolations, which makes it stand out among the many propaganda of the Dalai clique, and thus soon get intensive spotlight.

The book is published in the name of one person only for the "Tibetan government-in-exile" to avoid public condemnation toward its overt manipulation of self-immolations. The alleged author of the "Instructions" is Lhamo Je, who had been a "member of parliament" for two terms in the "parliament" of the Dalai clique and now still has an important position in its "educational system."

The "guide" consists of four parts. The first part is an ideological mobilization which advocates the idea that self-immolators are "great and honorable fearless heroes" and that "both male and female heroes" should be ready at all times to sacrifice for the "just cause."

The second part gives detailed instruction on the "self-immolation preparation," including "picking important days and places," "leaving written or recorded last words," and "asking a couple of trustworthy people to help record videos and take photos."

The third part introduces "self-immolation slogans" and instructs the self-immolators to shout "Free Tibet, let the Dalai Lama return to Tibet, and release political prisoners" and so forth, and asks them to print out the slogans into leaflets to scatter them on the spot so as to increase the impact.

The fourth part illustrates "other non-violent activities" such as "shouting loudly the campaign slogans at schools and other populated places," "making public speeches," and "filing petitions to the central government," and points out that "it is very important to launch various activities in political, economic, religious and cultural fields."

No matter from which perspective, this "Self-immolation Guide" can yet be regarded as "a remarkable piece of writing," for it is tantamount to a "confession" of the Dalai clique which has committed the crime of manipulating self-immolations.

As the head of the "Tibetan government-in-exile" Lobsang Sangay has asked the Chinese government to show evidence of the Dalai clique's manipulation of the self-immolations, and "welcome" the Chinese government to send groups to Dharamsala to search for evidence, they have now made public the evidence by themselves.

The reliability of the evidence lies not only in the source of the writer, a senior official of the Dalai clique, but also in the confirmation of every item of the contents listed by previous self-immolations.

In fact, almost every self-burning happened just like what the "guide" had planned -- some people videotaping the scene, some people shouting separatist slogans, inciting and gathering others to stop the government from taking rescue actions.

Sometimes the Dalai clique was able to hype the burning cases with photos and personal data of the self-immolators obtained only dozens of minutes after the incidents.

The contents of the "last words" shouted by some self-immolators are exactly the same as in the "guide."

According to Lorang Konchok, who has pleaded guilty of intentional homicide, he acted on the instructions of the Dalai clique to make use of his status and influence in the temple, and incited, instigated and coerced others to burn themselves with the help of his nephew.

Before the self-burning happened, Lorang Konchok recorded the individual and family information of the self-immolators and took photos for them. Once the self-immolation was committed, he sent the information immediately to the Dalai clique via a cell phone.