Beijing, June 13: In a fresh attack on Dalai Lama, a mouthpiece of the Chinese government on Sunday criticised his call for greater autonomy for Tibet and questioned whether he was really qualified to speak for six million Tibetans.
In an article it slammed the demands submitted by the spiritual leader’s representatives during their talks with Chinese officials early this year and said the Dalai Lama’s demand implies “greater Tibet,” which he never represented.
“In early 2010, the Dalai Clique filed a note relating to the Memorandum on Genuine Autonomy for All Tibetans to the Chinese government, requesting talks on the welfare of 6 million Tibetans,” the write up said inferring that his demand included all Tibetans living in four other provinces, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai and Yunnan, besides Tibet.
The article titled ‘Is the Dalai Lama qualified to speak on the ‘welfare of 6 million Tibetans?’, said the Dalai Lama himself hails from Tibetan majority Qinghai, which suffered heavy earthquake in April this year in which over 2600 people were killed and thousands injured.
–Agencies