Since March of this year a number of self-immolations have occurred in four monasteries in Ganzi and Aba counties, Sichuan, not in Tibet. Those who have immolated themselves have all been young people 20 or younger, the youngest being just 16. These incidents shocked me deeply, and I was particularly grieved over the deaths of people so young. Not long ago I visited the monasteries where these incidents occurred to personally investigate the situation. I, along with monks and lay persons there, expressed great indignation toward those who incited and encouraged these incidents and those who instigated them behind the scenes. Self-immolations occurred at four monasteries, and there are 3,542 monasteries in Tibet and other areas where Tibetans are clustered, and there are a total of 140,000 monks and nuns. So it is not the case as the Dalai Lama clique claims that the whole of the Tibetan area is going up in flames. The vast majority of monasteries and the vast majority of monks and nuns have not participated in these incidents; on the contrary they condemn them. The Dalai Lama clique says that the Tibetan people live in misery. As far as I can see, the only one living in misery is the Dalai Lama himself. Out of 3,542 monasteries, such incidents have occurred in only four, and the majority of them occurred in just one, the Gerdi Monastery in Aba. Why? The living Buddha Gerdi at this monastery supported the Dalai Lama’s reactionary armed rebellion in 1959, and fled abroad after the rebellion was crushed. He served as the head of the “Security Department” of the Dalai Lama clique’s “government-in-exile” for many years. As is well known, this department regularly engaged in bloodshed, destruction and infiltration. The first self-immolation incident occurred on March 16 of this year. The person who set himself on fire was a 19-year-old monk who died in the incident. However, we have identified three monks who helped and incited him, and we have brought them to justice. In court, they publicly admitted that when the self-immolation occurred, they not only did not attempt to rescue the injured party but actively blocked our cadres from rescuing him because they and been confused and incited by foreign forces. They even filmed the incident and immediately sent their film to the Dalai Lama’s headquarters in Dharamsala, India. After a number of self-immolation incidents occurred, the media reported that the Dalai Lama clique was calling the unfortunate young people who had immolated themselves “heroes” and “martyrs,” and was expressing admiration for them. The clique also gave them posthumous awards and erected plaques in their honor, and the Dalai Lama himself held a day-long Buddhist religious service, fasted for a day, and called the people who immolated themselves “extraordinarily brave.” All this greatly encouraged others to follow their example. I noticed that some Western media giants, such as Reuters, Radio France International and the Voice of Germany generally have very little positive to say about us, but they all said that the Dalai Lama and his people said nothing to stop these self immolations, but rather encouraged and incited them. What is most dreadful is that Tibetan Buddhism is inherently a religion that stresses mercy and values life, but the Dalai Lama Tibet Religious Foundation, which is located in Taiwan, published an article that stated that self-immolation does not violate the Buddhist doctrine that taking life is wrong, but on the contrary is a path to becoming a Bodhisattva and that whoever immolates himself or herself will immediately become a Bodhisattva. These facts reveal that the self immolations were the result of the efforts of the Dalai Lama clique to infiltrate monasteries over a long period time and brainwash monks shut up in them without even the most basic modern education. The Dalai Lama wants to turn Tibetan Buddhism into religion of suicide and self-immolation in the service of his own political purposes. This is the basic reason these incidents happened. Didn’t you just say that these self-immolations occurred because we undermined the Tibetan culture and religion? I want you to tell me how we undermined the culture and religion of the Tibetan people. Give me your facts. I can give you many examples of how we protected and developed Tibetan culture and religion, but I want you to bring forth an example of how we have harmed them.