Since February 2009 12 Tibetans have self immolated
Dec. 15.─ Among other implications, the self-immolation of Tibetans in China overwhelmingly suggests the failure of minority policy carved out by the People's Republic of China (PRC) to deal with the ethnic nationality question in the 1950s. The failure is particularly significant as it comes on the heels of the so called revised policy decision on Tibet in 2010 underscored in the Tibet Work Report that called for harmonious development in Tibet.
The Fifth National Conference on the Work of Tibet was held in Beijing in January 18-20, 2010, to deliberate on China's policy direction on Tibet. It was quite evident that the conference took place after the March 2008 Tibetan uprising. The last conference was held in 2001. Notably, the Fifth Tibet Work Report differed from the Fourth Work Report in three aspects.
First, it focussed on developing the rural areas; second, it emphasized on economic well-being and providing social security network rather than on strategic infrastructure building; and third, it included all the Tibetan areas unlike the Fourth Work Report that was limited to the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR).
It is clear that the 2010 Tibet Work Conference was convened especially to consider post-Dalai Lama scenario. Therefore, President Hu Jintao identified Tibet a "special contradiction between people of all ethnic groups and the separatist forces led by the Dalai clique" and called for "leapfrog development" and "lasting stability" as primary aspects of the Tibet Work Conference ...
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