Washington, February 24, 1995. According to the International Campaign for Tibet, "The Chinese government claims that Tibetans are planning a campaign of sabotage in 1995, focusing on official celebrations to be held in Lhasa in September of this year. Tibetan opponents of the celebrations, which will honor the 30th anniversary of the founding of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), are being armed by exile Tibetan groups, says classified Chinese government documents, and Chinese security agencies are on full alert. The 'Dalai clique' has spent a 'huge amount of U.S. dollars to purchase arms and ammunition to conduct armed harassment' and is gathering information on 'our key locations and facilities', according to a classified document obtained by the International Campaign for Tibet. The document, written by Zi Cheng, TAR Party Secretary for Political and Legal Affairs, was given an upper level 'jimi' classification. Two hundred copies were printed, and each one is numbered. The document identified Nepal as

the site where the 'Dalai clique' is recruiting new refugees and sending them to India to receive 'spy training'. The Tibetan Government in Exile emphatically denies that they are engaged in any armed activity. The exile government says that it continues to maintain a policy of strict non-violence. In recent months, official Chinese publications have increasingly referred to threats of violence in Tibet, always linking them to Tibetan exiles. 'Since 1985, we have never seen China claim that Tibetans were turning to violence like we have in the last few months', said Jigme Ngapo, China Analyst for the International Campaign for Tibet. According to Jigme Ngapo, the Chinese government claims are part of its new hard line policies which exaggerate the threat of violence to discredit the Tibetan movement internationally, inside Tibet and in China. 'The Dalai Lama is now being made out to be a real enemy again, not someone to engage in dialogue or negotiation with. The real purpose of the hardliners is to discredi

t any potential negotiating partner', Ngapo said."