Tibetan Government in Exile
- Central Tibetan Administration representative Dawa Tsering, in an interview with Radio France International's Chinese language program, answered a question about why the Dalai Lama did not condemn the violent actions of the rioters during the unrest. Tsering stated that:
| “ | First of all, I must make it clear that the Tibetan (rioters) has been non-violent throughout (the incident). From Tibetans' perspective, violence means harming life. From the video recordings you can see that the Tibetans rioters were beating Han Chinese, but only beating took place. After the beating the Han Chinese were free to flee. Therefore only beating, no life was harmed. Those who were killed were all results of accidents. From recordings shown by the Chinese Communist government, we can clearly see that when Tibetan were beating on their doors, the Han Chinese all went into hiding upstairs. When the Tibetan set fire to the buildings, the Han Chinese remained in hiding instead of escaping, the result is that these Han Chinese were all accidentally burnt to death. Those who set and spread the fire, on the other hand, had no idea whatsoever that there were Han Chinese hiding upstairs. Therefore not only were Han Chinese burnt to death, some Tibetans were burnt to death too. Therefore all these incidents were accidents, not murder. | ” |
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