By Tenzin Dharpo
DHARAMSHALA, MAY 3: In what many call an embarrassing and a rare admission of disarray within the otherwise resolute Chinese Communist Party, Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR) discipline watchdog head has condemned party officials who according to intelligence reports have given financial support to the exiled Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama.
Wang Yongjun who did not name any of the alleged party officials wrote that such individuals have, “neglected important political issues and the country’s anti-separatist struggle” and further deriding them of failing to “uphold their political integrity” and are “completely ignoring political discipline.”
The senior CCP official also wrote that the infringements were not limited to financial support but also intelligence leak and involvement in underground secessionist activities. ‘Some have even donated to the 14th Dalai Lama clique, joined illegal underground organizations and provided intelligence to overseas organizations’, Wang wrote in an article published on Monday in a magazine run by the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Commission of Discipline Inspection and the Ministry of Supervision.
The Tibetan leader, the Dalai Lama who seeks genuine autonomy for Tibet as a political solution prescribed within the Chinese constitution is considered a “separatist” by Beijing even labeling him a ‘demon’.
Party officials in the near past have been charged and accused of similar developments. According to the China News Service, a 2016 report issued by Tibet’s discipline watchdog has linked 15 Party officials to “alleged illegal overseas separatist organizations in 2014 who provided intelligence to the Dalai Lama clique and funded secessionist activities.”
