China calls Dalai Lama 'liar' for spreading 'false' poison plot rumours

Asia Pacific Star (ANI) Monday 14th May, 2012

China has accused the Dalai Lama of spreading 'false information' about Beijing training Tibetan women to kill him.

The Tibetan Buddhist leader recently said that he had reviewed reports from inside Tibet warning that Tibetan women would poison him while posing as his devotees seeking his blessings.

"We received some sort of information from Tibet. Some Chinese agents training some Tibetans, especially women, you see, using poison, the hair poisoned, and the scarf poisoned - they were supposed to seek blessing from me, and my hand touch," The Telegraph quoted the Dalai Lama, as saying.

According to the paper, the Chinese foreign ministry said the allegations were not worth refuting, but that the Dalai Lama often deceived the public.

"The Dalai always wears religious clothes while carrying out anti-China separatist activities in the global community, spreading false information and deceiving the public," the paper quoted Hong Lei, a spokesman, as saying.

A state-owned newspaper, the Global Times, said that if China wanted to kill the Dalai Lama, it could have done so several times without waiting for him to reach 76 years old.

Another news report, quoted a research fellow at China's Tibetology Research Centre, as saying that the Dalai Lama was a 'master of attracting media'.

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