State-Run Chinese Website Says Dalai Lama Has ‘Nazi’ Policies: ‘How Similar it Is to the Holocaust’
- Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:37pm by
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BEIJING (AP) — A state-run Chinese website has launched a bitter attack on the Dalai Lama, accusing the exiled Buddhist leader of “Nazi” racial policies and of inciting Tibetans to set themselves on fire.
The commentary on China Tibet Online, also carried Saturday by the official Xinhua News Agency, is one of the strongest reactions from Beijing to a string of protests in ethnic Tibetan areas of China.
About 30 Tibetan monks, nuns and lay people have set themselves on fire in the past year to protest what they say are repressive government policies toward their religion and culture. Many seek the return of the Dalai Lama.
The commentary follows other attacks by government officials on the Dalai Lama, who has praised the courage of those who engage in self-immolation and has attributed the protests to what he calls China’s “cultural genocide” in Tibet. But he also says he does not encourage the protests, noting they could invite an even harsher crackdown.
The website, set up in 2000 to present the government’s perspective on Tibet, accused the Dalai Lama of instigating the self-immolations and advocating Nazi racial segregation ideas.
It said the Dalai Lama had encouraged people to self-immolate because he called on Tibetans not to celebrate Losar, the Tibetan New Year, in February to remember those who have set themselves on fire.
An official of the Tibetan government-in-exile based in Dharmsala, India, said the Dalai Lama has stated that he does not support self-immolation.
“We are concerned about China shifting the blame on the Dalai Lama, making him the scapegoat rather than correcting their own repressive policies,” said Dicki Choyang, minister of the exile government’s Department of Information and International Affairs.
One activist group, London-based Free Tibet, released a video on Friday of one of the most recent self-immolations, showing the death earlier this month of Sonam Thargyal, a 44-year-old farmer who doused himself with kerosene before setting himself on fire.
The Chinese website was critical of the Dalai Lama’s comments that government policies, including the increased use of the Chinese language in Tibetan schools and the migration of ethnic Han Chinese into Tibetan areas, were eroding Tibetan culture.
“The Dalai Lama still treats himself as the serf owner, Tibet as his property and Tibetan people as his slaves,” it said.
The government says it has substantially improved living conditions in minority areas through massive spending programs, and that most Tibetans lived in feudal-like conditions before the Dalai Lama fled to exile in India in 1959 during a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
It said the Dalai Lama’s goal was to restore Tibetan serfdom and divide China. The Dalai Lama has said his aim is increased autonomy within China.
The commentary said the Dalai Lama’s remark that a future autonomous Tibetan region should be allowed to regulate who lives in the region was “a public declaration to expel non-Tibetan residents out of Tibet.”
Choyang of the exile government called China’s description of the population proposal “totally misleading.”
The proposal “never suggested removing established communities but advised preventing a massive transfer in the future,” she said.
The Chinese commentary called the Dalai Lama a “tricky liar skilled in double-dealing“ who wants to build a ”Berlin Wall” of ethnic segregation and confrontation.
“The remarks of the Dalai Lama remind us of the uncontrolled and cruel Nazi during the Second World War. … How similar it is to the Holocaust committed by Hitler on the Jewish!” the commentary said in criticizing the Dalai Lama’s call for high levels of autonomy for Tibetan areas.
It also said the Dalai Lama was controlled by the United States and that his relatives work for the Central Intelligence Agency.
It said the Dalai Lama, by praising the courage of those who died from self-immolations, left no doubt among his followers that one way for them to earn his prayers was for them to set themselves on fire.
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FreeUsAll
Posted on March 26, 2012 at 12:45pmThat is pretty low to knock the Dalai Lama. China’s propaganda machine is going on overload… much like the U.S. machine.
Report Post »sallyredneck
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 9:49pmGet real your Chinia dolls this man is as much a nazis as you progressives are republicans.
Report Post »What_Did_I_Miss
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:10pmThe Dali-Lama opened a pizza shop.
A customer walks in, goes up to the counter and says “Make me one with everything.”.
Sorry…old joke Just had to do it.
Report Post »CoyoteDKM
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:08pmDoes it strike anyone else that the way the Chinese government twists words is done in the exact same way that the progressive movement twists words? Russians are much more direct and blunt with their propaganda, but both the Chinese and progressive style is to take all their own crimes and say the other side is doing it, and then to pretend they are the victim. Makes one wonder if both groups hire the same propagandists.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:01pmHere’s a little known fact that will show you how stupid the Government and Higher Learning Institutions think we are….
In the dictionary, FLAMMABLE and INFLAMMABLE have the same exact meaning. This tells me that the high and mighty think we are so stupid that if “FLAMMABLE” is any part of a word it means it will or can catch fire.
Look it up yourselves if you don’t believe me.
Report Post »MYHEROISRON
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 8:14pmNow wait a minute … I remember seeing the Dolly Llama routing for the commies! I thought that was why he was shuffled out the ‘back door’ of the whitehouse like a piece of poop! I guess he was snubbed because he’s not a MUSLIM!!!
Report Post »iamhungry
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 10:01pmThe reason both of those words mean the same is because the word is derived from the latin inflammare but people confuse what the prefix in- means. It can mean two different things such as in invisible (not visible) and indoctrinate (to doctrinate). Considering the dangers associated with mistaking the differences the word has been simplified to stop any confusion.
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:12amSorry Monk, you’re wrong and the dictionary is right. Flammable and inflammable have the same meaning. The root word of inflammable is inflame which means to ignite or set fire to.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:51pm@Doctor Nordo
“Sorry Monk, you’re wrong and the dictionary is right. Flammable and inflammable have the same meaning”
Isn’t that what I said? They both have the same meaning?
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 1:59pm@iamhungry
I don’t see “inflammable” listed anywhere’s in the definition of “inflame”?
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/inflame
inflame [ɪnˈfleɪm]
vb
1. to arouse or become aroused to violent emotion
2. (tr) to increase or intensify; aggravate
3. (Medicine / Pathology) to produce inflammation in (a tissue, organ, or part) or (of a tissue, etc.) to become inflamed
4. to set or be set on fire; kindle
5. (tr) to cause to redden
inflamer n
inflamingly adv
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inflame
Report Post »Doctor Nordo
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:12pm@THE-MONK
From: Dictionary.com
Origin:
Report Post »1595–1605; < Medieval Latin inflammābilis, equivalent to Latin inflammā ( re ) to inflame + -bilis -ble
Doctor Nordo
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:16pm@THE-MONK
The whole entry:
in·flam·ma·ble [in-flam-uh-buhl]
adjective
1. capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
2. easily aroused or excited, as to passion or anger; irascible: an inflammable disposition.
noun
3. something inflammable.
Origin:
Report Post »1595–1605; < Medieval Latin inflammābilis, equivalent to Latin inflammā ( re ) to inflame + -bilis -ble
Doctor Nordo
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 3:19pmAnd I apologize if I misunderstood your original post, but even after reading it a half dozen times it still comes across as suggesting that the dictionary is making outrageous claims as to the meaning of a word. I also fail to see how this, in any way, evidences that higher learning institutions think that we are stupid.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 5:01pmThe Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald… striking. So, I’m on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one — big hitter, the Lama…
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:46pm@Gonzo
Love your posts and I get the reference to Caddy Shack.
Just to let some of the posters here who are curious know…
The 14th Dalai Lama is a self proclaimed Marxist. He is not the Son of the 13th Dalai Lama. One of the roles of a Dalai Lama is to point in the direction of the next Dalai Lama so he (the Child) can be found, tested and groomed to be the next Dalai Lama when the current Dalai Lama dies. The 14th Dalai Lama has not and will not point to the next (15th) Dalai Lama because he says the World does not need or want a Dalai Lama anymore.
The first Tibetan Monk to set Himself on fire in protest did not use flammable liquids. He Self ignited Himself with His Will. All the Monks that set themselves on fire with flammable liquids (self-immolation) are weak, self centered followers of the current Marxist 14th Dalai Lama.
The Chinese were wrong in 1959 but they are more correct now (in 2012) in regards to what the 14th Dalai Lama is preaching. One would think that communist and Marxist would get along but they don’t. Here in the USA both have joined up with the Unions, progressives and socialist to defeat America and each believe they will rule afterwards.
Take a long look at what China and the Marxist Dalai Lama are going through. If they defeat us, they will battle with each other and that will be our chance to defeat them…. when they are separated and fighting themselves.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:17pmHow insane !
>Perhaps ‘China’ will translate the words of Jesus –as well.
Report Post »judyaz
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:15pmThe Chinese Government is to the Dalai Lama’s Tibet as Nazis were to the Holocaust.
Report Post »Atheistic communists are to all who follow the world’s religions in peace and who love one another as Nazi-influence (Iran, Hezbollah, the Muslim Brotherhood, and Yasser Arafat’s “Black September”occupy Israel movement) are to the Jews and those who await the Messiah, and are not anti-Christ.
The Dalai Lama raises his hands to bow in humility and respect to all sentient beings; he bows to the Buddha, the Christ, the Messiah, the living spirit who knows the Creator who lives within each of us. In such compassion and tolerance he knows his humble place in virtuous character and unending patience, for the teacher cannot be greater than the student, not the student greater than the teacher. We are all students; we are all teachers to one another.
Through endless years of practicing compassion, patience, non-judgment, truthfulness, respect, kindness, selflessness, detachment to material things of the world and to ego, he would have nothing in his character remaining that could resemble Nazis or those who accuse him for the sake of power.
Let us stand with the Dalai Lama, as we stand with Israel and the Catholics. For he does.
Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:01pmA state-run Communist Chinese websight says…yada, yada, yada…
Translation: PROPAGANDA.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:45pmHollywood supports… the DaLAi LAma… and Communists… so this is a Taboo Story!
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:57pmPutting aside that a government that practices forced abortions and sterilizations has no business pointing fingers and calling people “Nazis,” the Chinese have systematically practiced ethnic cleansing in Tibet for decades. Calling a devote pacifist a “Nazi” demonstrates that lies and propaganda are alive and well in Beijing.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:55pmI never got into the whole setting yourself on fire thing, because it just accomplishes setting yourself on fire, and that’s all. To me it makes far more sense to sacrifice the want of things which also sets yourself on fire, whereby it means you are setting yourself on fire so your children can live. And orientals think they have the biggest brains, haven’t you heard DNA means nothing.
Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:03pmAs a matter of fact, people could exterminate every Jew from the face of the earth, and five minutes later Jews would begin popping up all over again. Because it isn’t about DNA.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:28pmOh you know what I just realized something. People are waiting for God to come along to physically lay hold of the Dragon, the devil, and throw him into the sea of fire. No, it‘s people finally figure out that their own children and children’s children will be miserable wretches if the parents don’t sacrifice their own want of things. That’s how the Dragon is thrown onto the sea of fire. Otherwise, the whole earth will burn.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:39pmIt’s interesting, but I never place my hands together to pray, and yet somehow I have all the answers.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 3:47pmAnd the man brought his son who was foaming at the mouth to Jesus, and Jesus said to the man “Do you believe?” (of course all this was in front near the man’s son). And the man said “Yes, but help my disbelief.” And Jesus said to the son, “Come out thou deaf mute spirit” (the deaf mute spirit was God’s own “His” own). And the boy suppressed the beast-side of men, which brought the spirit of “His” own to the face of the boy.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:10pmAnd here is the biggest shock of all, an Atheist is “His” own, and that‘s why they don’t see themselves. But they deny they have a Father which only serves to destroy their own children who will repeat the same mistakes of their parents, because surely if the parent has no father, then the parent’s children will not see the parent as a Father.
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:16pmBecause haven’t you noticed that Atheists are quite capable of being very civilized?
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 4:31pmTherefore Atheists are more as the very first than they know, and the world full of Atheists become Holy to the Universe and therefore the universe calls them home.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 7:51pmHi Timmy,
Report Post »Having fun playing (posting) with yourself again? You do know that will make you go blind?
I SPY
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:55pmAnd I’m sure obama agrees with his heros in commie China.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:48pm“The Chinese commentary called the Dalai Lama a “tricky liar skilled in double-dealing“ who wants to build a ”Berlin Wall” of ethnic segregation and confrontation.” Apparently the Chinese don’t like competition. This criticism coming from the Chinese government is laughable. Apparently there are no mirrors in the halls of Chinese government.
Report Post »Mandors
Posted on March 24, 2012 at 2:55pmAgreed. The Chinese don’t want a wall for ethic segregation, because it would get in the way of their active ethnic cleansing of Tibet.
Report Post »Czynik
Posted on March 25, 2012 at 12:28amTrue, the Chinese are the tricky liars skilled in double dealing. Communists hate religion and are committed to eliminating it because only communism and the state are to be worshiped. That is why American leftists and liberals are so opposed to religion.
Report Post »The Dalai Lama has said repeatedly that Tibet must live in harmony with their neighbor China and not engage in armed conflict because all things change, including the communist regimes and they will have to live together as neighbors with the Chinese after it does.
The Chinese have murdered a million Tibetan monks to stamp out Buddhism in Tibet. Dalai Lama hopes that political pressure and human rights activism will prevent more genocide in the future. They are taking a very long term view, something not well understood by many westerners.