The Tibet Youth Congress openly declares that only by winning "the complete independence of Tibet" can the immolations be finally stopped. And the self-proclaimed "Tibetan government in exile" has set Tibet's self-governance as its practical objective and independence as its principle objective.

After the immolations, the Dalai Lama clique unscrupulously require China's State leaders to resume talks with the "Tibetan government in exile" to solve the issue of Tibet. The illegal government hopes the Chinese government will accept it as dialogue partner and thus recognize its status.

Given these objectives, it is easier to understand why the Dalai Lama and his clique organize the immolations. They are taking people's lives to attract the attention of Western countries whose support they want for their political objectives.

One veteran Tibetan separatist wrote disappointedly that the immolations had not been raised during the US presidential election.

But as China's interactions with the world have grown and people start to understand China better, it is proving increasingly difficult for the Dalai Lama to demonize China. He resorts to forcing his compatriots to kill themselves. Some US media reported that he even forces children in his schools to pay tribute to the people conducting immolations. According to a US Strategic Forecasting report in April, this clearly shows the new leaders of the "Tibetan government in exile" have diverted their attention from mobilizing costly large-scale protests in Tibet to organizing individual deaths by immolation in the bordering area between Tibet and Sichuan.

The US State Department's Report on "Tibet Negotiations" this year says the Dalai Lama's non-violent principle is the crux for a solution to the "Tibet issue". But what is more violent than the Dalai Lama's attitude and behavior is instigating people to kill themselves. Such an obvious distortion of "non-violence" indicates that certain foreign powers are still behind the Dalai Lama and his clique, despite the shrinking stage for their conspiracy.

So the Dalai Lama and his clique are trying to find new stages, partners and audiences. During the escalating tensions between China and Japan over the Diaoyu Islands this year, the Dalai Lama visited Yasukuni Shrine, where Japanese war criminals are worshipped, and openly called China's Diaoyu Islands the Senkaku Islands, which is their name in Japan. In return, Japan's right-wing activist senators set up a union to support the "independence" of Tibet.

But the other side of the Dalai Lama's actions is the sad life of Tibetan people in Dharamsala. The European Union's report on Dharamsala says the Tibetan settlement's economic growth is very weak and the dropout rate in middle schools is about 50 percent. The settlement lacks any basic social security and assistance systems and the local agricultural production mainly relies on natural rainfall. In contrast, the development of the Tibet autonomous region and the rest of China is stable, fast and sustainable.

The separatist activities of the Dalai Lama and his clique started with absolute violence, and then evolved into a combination of violence and non-violence. Now, they are resorting to pure violence again. But whatever measures they try are doomed to failure, because they are against history and humanity. Admitting his guilt to the Chinese government and Chinese people is the only choice for him now.

(China Daily 12/12/2012 page9)