(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-06-27 23:04

Recently, he has also been emphasizing "cultural autonomy" which, according to him, inevitably includes the Tibetans living in neighbouring provinces, but he couldn't explain exactly what that would mean, wrote the Guangming Daily.

About the Dalai Lama's so-called "evidence" at a hearing on China's human rights record held in the British Parliament, China's People's Daily commented: In the old theocratic Tibet with feudal serfdom, the masses of serfs ruled by the Dalai Lama were deprived of basic living rights, let alone human rights.

In recent years, the many foreigners who have been to Tibet saw the drastic changes that have taken place there - some highly praised the human rights condition on the plateau, wrote the People's Daily, noting it is an amusing irony that the "human-rights-guarding" British Parliament allowed the Dalai Lama to speak on China's human rights.

DALAI LAMA DISPLAY OF "HARMONY" REDUCED TO STATE OF DISORDER

The Beijing-based International Herald Leader has reported a Dalai Lama press conference in the western German city of Bochum, saying that his typical smile faded when a question was raised by a Chinese reporter on his self-contradictory words and deeds.

The reporter asked if his claim of "no Tibet independence" is in conflict with his sending his private representative Lodi Gyari to negotiations with the Central Government, as he is founder of the Tibetan Youth Congress who advocates violence as a means to bring about "Tibetan independence".

The question embarrassed the Dalai Lama who, as a result, only kind of whispered an answer, meaning "You can go ask him about this." He then drifted to the history of TYC and how some TYC members ended up holding posts in his "government-in-exile", explaining that people's thoughts are prone to change.

After the Dalai Lama ended the press conference in haste, Wu Liming, the reporter who raised the question, was surrounded by other journalists asking about on Lodi Gyari.

According to the next day's German news magazine Stern, when Wu Liming raised the question, the Dalai Lama's face sank for the first time. The Chinese reporter in Germany reduced this display of "harmony and friendship" into a state of disorder for a few minutes, wrote the Stern.

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