China dismisses Dalai Lama murder plot claim
China has accused the Dalai Lama of “deceiving the world” and “spreading false information” after
Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader said he was warned of a plot by Chinese agents to assassinate him.
The Buddhist monk made the allegation in an interview with Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, saying he had been told that agents were planning to poison him using Tibetan women posing as devotees seeking his blessing.
“The Dalai Lama always engages in anti-China splittist activities globally wearing his religious cloak, spreading false information, deceiving the world and confusing the public,” Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said.
“His most recent statement is not even worth refuting,” he told reporters Monday.
Beijing routinely accuses the Dalai Lama of seeking to split Tibet from the rest of China — a claim the Nobel Peace Prize laureate denies, saying he only seeks greater autonomy for the Himalayan region.
Global Times Monday ran an article "Dalai assassination claims mind-boggling" after the Tibetan spiritual leader told Sunday Telegraph that he had received reports from inside Tibet warning about some Chinese agents training Tibetan women for a mission to poison him.
"We received some sort of information from Tibet," he was quoted as saying.
"Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans, especially women, you see, using poison - the hair poisoned, and the scarf poisoned - they were supposed to seek blessings from me, and my hand touch," he added.
The Chinese daily wondered "why did the Dalai Lama decide to openly speak of this unconfirmed information? He spread the information of this kind at his pleasure, even more enthusiastically than the other ordinary Tibetan monks in exile".
In a veiled warning, the daily said: "Let's put it simply: If the central government wanted to `eliminate' the Dalai Lama, why has it waited for such a long time? Isn't it foolish to take action against Dalai at such an old age?"
It said the Dalai Lama's assassination plot is "more like something you would find in a martial arts novel".
"Revealing such unreliable information, the Dalai appears to have become mixed up in his old age," it added. The Tibetan spiritual leader is now 76.
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