On This Day April 1, 1959
The Times reports on Peking’s drive to cut off the Dalai Lama’s escape routes
China rejects rumor of soldiers disguising as rioting monks
www.chinaview.cn 
2008-03-31 23:28:22
BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) — China on Monday rejected a rumor cited by the Dalai Lama that hundreds of soldiers disguised as monks in the Lhasa riots on March 14.
“The truth of the violent crimes in Lhasa is there for all to see and proved by ironclad evidences that can not be denied,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Jiang Yu.
She was responding to a question concerning the Dalai Lama’s recent press briefing in New Delhi, India, where he denied having supported the riots and said he heard a few hundred Chinese soldiers were masquerading as monks in the riots.
“Dalai Lama’s citing of hearsay rumors can not change the truth of the incident. It only shows the sense of guilty conscience in his deep heart so that he was trying to pass the buck using rumors and cheating,” she said.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/31
Pechino orchestrava la rivolta nel Tibet’
Canada Free Press [Venerdi, 21 Marzo, 2008 10:20] spie britanniche confermano la denuncia del Dalai Lama sulle violenze inscenate
di Gordon Thomas
http://buddhismoitalia.forumcommunity.net
Beijing orchestrating Tibet riots
Just in case you wondered why these “Tibetan monks” were so violent in Lhasa….
This is not an uncommon ‘tactical move’ from the Chinese government as could be seen on the back-cover of the 2003 annual TCHRD Report
Canada Free Press [Friday, March 21, 2008 10:20] Brit spies confirm Dalai Lama’s report of staged violence
By Gordon Thomas
London, March 20 - Britain’s GCHQ, the government communications agency that electronically monitors half the world from space, has confirmed the claim by the Dalai Lama that agents of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army, the PLA, posing as monks, triggered the riots that have left hundreds of Tibetans dead or injured.
GCHQ analysts believe the decision was deliberately calculated by the Beijing leadership to provide an excuse to stamp out the simmering unrest in the region, which is already attracting unwelcome world attention in the run-up to the Olympic Games this summer.
For weeks there has been growing resentment in Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, against minor actions taken by the Chinese authorities.
Increasingly, monks have led acts of civil disobedience, demanding the right to perform traditional incense burning rituals. With their demands go cries for the return of the Dalai Lama, the 14th to hold the high spiritual office.
Committed to teaching the tenets of his moral authority—peace and compassion—the Dalai Lama was 14 when the PLA invaded Tibet in 1950 and he was forced to flee to India from where he has run a relentless campaign against the harshness of Chinese rule.
But critics have objected to his attraction to film stars. Newspaper magnate Rupert Murdoch has called him: “A very political monk in Gucci shoes.”
Discovering that his supporters inside Tibet and China would become even more active in the months approaching the Olympic Games this summer, British intelligence officers in Beijing learned the ruling regime would seek an excuse to move and crush the present unrest.
That fear was publicly expressed by the Dalai Lama. GCHQ’s satellites, geo-positioned in space, were tasked to closely monitor the situation.
The doughnut-shaped complex, near Cheltenham racecourse, is set in the pleasant Cotswolds in the west of England. Seven thousand employees include the best electronic experts and analysts in the world. Between them they speak more than 150 languages. At their disposal are 10,000 computers, many of which have been specially built for their work.
The images they downloaded from the satellites provided confirmation the Chinese used agent provocateurs to start riots, which gave the PLA the excuse to move on Lhasa to kill and wound over the past week.
What the Beijing regime had not expected was how the riots would spread, not only across Tibet, but also to Sichuan, Quighai and Gansu provinces, turning a large area of western China into a battle zone.
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