More Chinese Lies , Tibetan boy lam

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please in solidarity with the outrage of all tibetans who not unlike some 
us media are not swallowing all this prochina propoganda 

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China says its boy Lama accepted by Tibetans

    By Paul Eckert
     BEIJING, March 8 (Reuter) - The six-year-old boy named by China as 
the
reincarnation of Tibet's second-holiest monk has won the approval of
Tibetan clergy and contributes to stability in his homeland, government
officials said on Friday.
     "Both clergy and laypersons in Tibet are satisfied with the
reincarnation," said Raidi, chairman of the standing committee of
parliament in the Tibet Autonomous Region.
     "Tibet enjoys social stability and economic development and Tibetan
people are content with their work and life" -- thanks in part to the
smooth reincarnation arranged by China, he told a news conference in
Beijing.
     The boy, Gyaincain Norbu, was identified as the recipient of the
spirit of the 10th Panchen Lama, who died in 1989, in a ceremony presided
over by a Communist Party official in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa, in
December.
     The enthronement provoked controversy because it superseded the
announcement of a different reincarnation by the Dalai Lama, Tibet's 
exiled
god-king, whose calls for greater Tibetan autonomy are condemned by 
Beijing
as attempts to split China.
     The row between atheist China and the exiled spiritual leader also
raised fears about the fate of Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the six-year-old 
named
last May by the Dalai Lama as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.
     The London-based human rights group Amnesty International says the 
boy
named by the Dalai Lama is missing, along with his family and other 
monks.
     Reports of the boy's imprisonment were "sheer groundless 
fabrication,"
Raidi insisted.
     "On the young boy's well-being, I can assure you that he is living
happily with his family," he said.
     "How can a little boy as young as Choekyi Nyima commit any crime and
be imprisoned?"
     The 11th Panchen Lama had taken up studies of the Tibetan language 
and
basic scriptures of Tibetan Buddhism, he said.
     The studies would make the boy "a patriotic great Buddhist master 
who
is devoted to the motherland and well-versed in Buddhism," a Tibetan 
member
of China's parliament said on Thursday.
     State media heaped abuse this week on the Dalai Lama, the 1989 Nobel
Peace Prize winner, calling him "a political exile who works to split the
motherland under the cloak of religion."
     The Dalai Lama and thousands of followers fled to India in 1959 
after
an abortive anti-Chinese uprising, but he continues to command the 
loyalty
of many Tibetans.
     The region has been rocked by often violent pro-independence 
protests
since 1987, and China has jailed many monks and nuns who have spearheaded
the independence movement.
     China asserted sovereignty over Tibet, sending troops to purge 
Tibetan
"feudalism" and install socialism, after communists took control of China
in 1949.
     Tibet's economy grew 10.6 percent in 1995, the first time in history
the region had achieved double-digit growth, said Raidi.

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