Beijing: China on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Dalai Lama, terming him the “hatchet man of anti-China forces” and calling the recent spate of suicides by Tibetan monks and nuns as an orchestrated attempt to create chaos.
State-run Xinhua news agency quoted an official as saying that police investigations of the self-immolations in Tibetan areas of the provinces of Sichuan and Qinghai, bordering Tibet, have found that victims were used by separatists to create chaos.
Wu Zegang, chief of the Aba prefecture of southwest China’s Sichuan province said similarities found in the self-immolations in the Tibetan-populated regions have pointed to an “orchestrated campaign” launched with political motive. (PTI)
