China slams Dalai Lama 

BEIJING: China’s state press on Monday accused the Dalai Lama of “monstrous crimes,” keeping up its fiery rhetoric against the exiled spiritual Tibetan leader despite agreeing to maintain dialogue with him.

Chinese officials and two envoys of the Dalai Lama met in southern China on Sunday for their first talks in over a year following global pressure on Beijing to reopen negotiations amid seven weeks of deadly unrest in Tibet.

But China, which has blamed the Dalai Lama for the unrest that erupted in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa on March 14 and spread to Tibetan-populated regions around the country, showed no signs that the talks had changed its position.

“Following the March 14 incident in Lhasa, the Dalai has not only refused to admit his monstrous crimes, but he has continued to perpetuate fraud,” an article in Monday’s state Tibet Daily said.
--AFP