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Tibetan Youth Congress refutes China’s “baseless and fallacious” allegations
Phayul[Thursday, April 24, 2008 23:56]
By Phurbu Thinley

Tibetan Youth Congress president called the Chinese Communist Party government the “real terrorist” responsible for killing more than 1 million Tibetans since China’s occupation of Tibet in 1949

Dharamsala, April 24: The largest Tibetan non-governmental organization in exile, devoted to restoring Tibet’s lost independence, on Thursday rebuffed Chinese news reports accusing it of planning to launch suicide attacks to achieve its goals.

“The Tibetan Youth Congress vehemently rejects baseless allegations by Communist Chinese Party,” said Tsewang Rigizin, the president of the Tibetan Youth congress, at a press conference here today.

"Relying on these baseless allegations, the Chinese Communist Party hopes to hijack our non-violent struggle and weaken the Tibetan independence movement," he said.

Mr Tsewang was referring series of articles lately published by Xinhua, the state mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party alleging TYC of planning “suicide attacks” to struggle for Tibet’s independence and calling a “terrorist organisation”.

“TYC strongly rejects these allegations as baseless and fallacious,” he added.

“We have never planned any suicide attacks. I have always maintained that violence is not an option for us” he said reacting to Chinese media report last week quoting him of telling an Italian newspaper that suicide bombers could be used to win Tibet's independence. Chinese media have also blamed TYC was behind the recent riot that broke out in Lhasa last month.

"I am not quoted correctly. I never said that we would plan suicide attacks or resort to violence,” Mr Tsewang said.

He said he had already written to the Italian news reporter about the allegation, and said he was yet to receive any reply on that.

"In the last 38 years of TYC’s existence, we have always campaigned for Tibet's independence based on the historical truth and non-violence and have never resorted to any terrorist activities or suicide attacks to achieve our goal of Tibet's independence," he said of the youth congress, which was founded in 1970.

“Since the inception of TYC in 1970, our main goal is to regain Tibet’s independence and restore the dignity of the Tibetan people and we will continue our non-violent struggle until Tibet is independent,” Tsewang said.

TYC leader instead blamed the Chinese Communist Party as the the “real terrorist”.

“History clearly shows that Chinese Communist Party is the real terrorist,” Tsewang said claiming over 1 million Tibetans have been killed since China occupied Tibet in 1949 and for the brutal crackdown on peaceful Tibetan demonstrators in the latest unrests across Tibet.

Tibetan Youth Congress headquartered in Dharamsala, the seat of the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government-in-Exile, has over 30000 members with more than 80 regional chapters worldwide.
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