Dalai Cilque's 'democratic' lies
2010-06-07 16:47:00|by: |From: People's Daily
The Dalai clique has always trumpeted themselves as a "democratic" group.
When the 14th Dalai Lama was asked about the "next Dalai Lama" on May 13th, he said that was up to the Tibetan People. He claimed that there was a "democratic election" in the Tibetan Government in Exile. At the same time, the only "party" in the Dalai clique, the "Tibet Democratic Party", established by the notorious "Tibetan Youth Congress", announced a list of candidates for the 2011 election of its chief secretary. The "Tibet Democratic Party" also claimed that the election campaign fund would be raised by a "lucky draw", and the fund would be used for candidates to give speeches in every "Tibetans in exile" community.
When studying the "democratic election" in the Dalai clique, it was not hard to find that this "government" was "gold and jade on the outside, but rot and decay on the inside".
The real democratic governments were unreligious governments with equal voters. However, though claimed to be democratic, the "Tibetan Government in Exile" was a "government" that mires religion with politics. The "charter" of the Dalai Clique regulated that the Dalai Lama was the political and religious leader of the "Tibetan Government in Exile". Therefore, the "Tibetan Government in Exile" was manipulated by Dalai himself.
There were three major systems in the "Tibetan Government in Exile". They were "The Dalai Secretariat", "The former Tibetan local government" and "The Tibetan People's Assembly". "The Dalai Secretariat" was not only an important organization in support of the 14th Dalai Lama's political standing and international status, but also the core policy-making agency of the government in exile.
The chief secretary elected by the "democratic election" was just a puppet of the Dalai Lama. Jiangyang Nuobu, a Tibetan expert, once criticized: "The 'chief secretary' never freely expressed himself like other democratically elected leaders. He only made announcement after guessing the Dalai Lama's idea. Samdhong Rinpoche admitted himself that he executed the Dalai Lama's idea." Moreover, in the system of the "Tibetan Government in Exile", the "Tibetan monks in exile" enjoyed a privilege. Monks could vote twice in the election, as a result, the monks who supported the Dalai Lama controlled the key departments of the "Tibetan Government in Exile".
No democratic government would identify with witch-hunting and political assassination; however, these means were commonly seen in the Dalai Clique. Of all the witch-hunting and political assassinations that the Dalai Clique played, the witch-hunting of Dorje Shugden was just an example of international impact. The Dalai Clique resorted to every conceivable means to attack their political opponents. For example, a scholar who resided in Japan once criticized the Dalai Lama in his piece of work, and he was immediately revenged by pouring inks and spitting at his face. His daughter, who worked in the "Tibetan Government in Exile", was then kept as a hostage.
The foundation of any democratically elected government was mass voters with high passion of political participation and democratic consciousness. According to the Dalai Lama, his followers had lived in a "free world" for 50 years. Normally, his followers would be nurtured to be democratic, however, the Dalai Clique never taught his followers any kind of democratic consciousness.
Gaina Zishang, a Tibetan in exile, described that many Tibetans in exile did not understand democracy. If you told a Tibetan in exile to vote, he would ask, "Who would the Dalai Lama want me to vote for?" Samdhong also admitted that the Tibetans in exile accepted the so-called "democratic" regime only because of their great piety towards the Dalai Lama.
The voting rate was an important index for measuring whether a government was a democratically elected one or not. As for the "Tibetan Government in Exile", the voting rate was very low. In their 2006 election, the voting rate was only 26.8%. Considering the fact that a monk could have two votes, the actual voting rate would be even lower.
The year of 2011 was an election year for the Dalai Clique, however, based on the information available now, the voting rate would not be any higher. The "Tibet Democratic Party" had ambitiously chosen three candidates for the chief secretary election, and 45 candidates for the parliament election. However, one candidate for the chief secretary quitted the election, and only 21 out of 45 candidates agreed to run the parliament election. This bleak situation indicated that the 2011 election of the Dalai Clique would end in a catastrophe. In addition, the low voting rate showed that the Dalai Clique was everything but democratic, and it didn't enjoy a popular support among the Tibetans in exile.
