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    From Peter Terpstra@21:1/5 to All on Sat Jan 16 08:05:34 2016
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    XPost: soc.culture.usa, talk.politics.tibet

    Russian author expresses concerns for Tibet
    Phayul [Friday, January 15, 2016 18:37]
    By Tenzin Monlam

    DHARAMSHALA, January 14: A Russian scholar at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and
    the author of a new book on Tibet Hidden Tibet: History of independence and occupation said that China has made ‘Tibet into a
    military country’.

    Dr. Sergei L Kuzmin was speaking at a talk, ‘The Statehood and Status of Tibet: Past and Present’, organized by the Library of
    Tibetan Works and Archives (LTWA) Friday. Kuzmin said that the present situation of Tibet is ‘not good’ and that it ‘does not
    look like a peaceful country’.

    “China has invested much money into the Tibetan economy in order to make the dependence on China much higher than earlier.
    It is not an act of generosity towards Tibetans. It is rather the opposite. It is their policy to make Tibetans and Chinese more and
    more connected and dependent,” Dr. Kuzmin said of Chinese policies in Tibet.

    He added that Tibetans should strive to protect their religion, culture, language and ‘must follow His Holiness the Dalai Lama’.

    “I believe that Tibet will become independent and the Republic of China is not perennial. It will split and when such time comes
    Tibetans must remain Tibetans with their culture and tradition intact,” he said.

    He also expressed his criticism about the Chinese government’s interference in the appointment of reincarnations of the Dalai
    Lama and tulkus. “They may make official regulations but they are only regulations and not religion. Religion does not fall under
    any law. They are two separate things. Interference of officials into religion is null and all the appointment based on that are null
    as well,” he said.

    The Russian Author who traveled to Tibet two weeks before the 2008 uprising said that during his stay in Tibet ‘he saw visible
    peace, but internal tension’ of the situation in Tibet. He said he also felt the strong Chinese military presence in the country. The
    541-paged book traces the history of Tibet and analyses its right to statehood.

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