'Tibetan Youth Congress' a violent spearhead
Updated: 2008-07-03 00:15
Instead, Cewang Rigzin has focused on launching the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement" and a series of extreme activities in March and sabotaging the Beijing Olympics.
To implement the "Tibetan People's Uprising Movement," the TYC held training in guerrilla warfare and explosives use.
After the March 14 riot in Lhasa, M. K. Bhadrakumar, an Indian diplomat and former Indian ambassador to Turkey and Uzbekistan, said in an article titled "India Wakes to a Tibetan Headache" that "Tibetan activists ... darkly hinted they were indeed expecting the disturbances".
Xie Gangzheng said the Dalai Lama's backers and especially the TYC remote-controlled the March 14 riot and made elaborate plans for their activities after the riot.
On March 15, the TYC approved a decision to "found a guerrilla movement as soon as possible to secretly enter China and carry out armed struggles" at a meeting of its "central executive committee" in Dharmsala, the location of the Dalai Lama's "government-in-exile" in India.
They made detailed plans for personnel, funding and armament purchases, and planned to sneak into China via the border with Nepal, which they had carefully surveyed, Xie said.
Five days later, Cewang Rigzin on March 20 announced that violence has "reached its goal to awaken resistance forces among people in Tibet and attract high-profile international attention to the Tibet issue."
He added: "The struggle will not stop and this incident is just the prelude of this year's fight," adding that they might use suicide attacks.
According to Xie, the TYC has also been actively training an armed force at a military base in Dharmsala while inciting common people to commit violence.
"The TYC is still a stubborn advocacy group for 'Tibet independence' supported by the Tibetan 'government-in-exile,' which upholds complete violence and has become an armed spearhead of the Dalai clique," he said.
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