FREE TIBET MOVEMENT: US-IMPERIALIST PLOT

Media Release: May 20, 2008

What people across the globe perceive to be a just and peaceful movement for Tibet's independence from China turns out to be part of an imperialist plot to regain political hegemony.

The Dalai Lama of Tibet proves to be a vital instrument in the United States' ploy to regain its political (and economic) hegemony which is obviously in shambles at the present time. Because the world is now aware of the perilous effect of its "war on terror" propaganda which has severely worsened the political and economic condition of the countries where the said war has been waged; US now resorts to its infamous imperialist designs similar to that of benevolent assimilation which it has used in the Philippines, as well as its intervention in Cuba's struggle for independence during the colonial era.

Under the guise of supporting the Tibetan efforts to gain independence from the People's Democratic Republic of China, the US maneuvers its different apologists and mercenaries, as well as Tibetan opposition to project discrimination by China and assert Tibet's right to self-determination.

In a statement by Prof. Jose Maria Sison, chairperson of the International League of People's Struggle of which Asian Peasant Coalition is a member of, he asserted that for almost 50 years, US' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) other monopoly-capitalist funding agencies have been funding the Dalai Lama to "demonize" China; alleging the state of committing human rights violations and ethnic genocide. With this "demonization" campaign, the Dalai Lama would secure support in their separatist efforts, and allow US to intervene along the way.

Danilo Ramos, secretary general of APC meanwhile expressed support to the ILPS viewpoint that the reactionary movement of the Dalai Lama and its campaign against China will only paradoxically bring back despotic and oppressive theocracy rule instead of bringing justice and freedom for the Tibetan people; where majority of the Tibetan people will only be enslaved by such rotten system. ###