BEIJING: In stepped up prop agenda against the exiled Tibetan religious leader, the Dalai Lama, ten days before he is to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, the official Chinese press Friday said he had “contributed nothing to Tibet’s development and construction.”
A signed article in Monday’s weekly Beijing Review, said that since 1987, the Dalai Lama “supported secessionists inside and outside Tibet to stir up riots.”
The Nobel prize committee’s decision to confer the prize on the Dalai Lama in recognition of his “nonviolent struggle for the liberation of Tibet” was announced on. October 5 and the award ceremony is to take place on Dec ember 10 in Oslo.
The article said Friday, “giving the Nobel Prize to such a political exile long engaged in activities to undermine the unity of all the nothing short of deplorable.”
Article extracted from this publication >> December 8, 1989
