BEIJING, June 4 (Reuter) - The Dalai Lama, exiled god-king of Tibet, commemorated the sixth anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown on Sunday with a call for international support for China's beleaguered pro-democracy movement.

"I wish to pay my respect to those who died for freedom, democracy and human rights for your great nation," he said in a message issued to China from his home in exile at Dharamsala in India. The Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, just months after Chinese troops swept into Beijing's Tiananmen Square to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations, killing hundreds, said the crackdown had failed to crush the movement.

"I believe strongly that the international community has an obligation to isolate China and to promote its economic integration, he said, adding that China should also be brought into the mainstream of world democracy.In the final analysis it is the dedicated and courageous members of the Chinese democracy movement who will lead China into a future of freedom and democracy and no one else," he said in his message. "For that reason the Chinese democracy movement must be given every possible assistance, encouragement and support."

He called for a non-violent movement to win democracy in China.

The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since he fled Tibet in 1959 with tens of thousands of followers after an abortive uprising against the Chinese. He enraged Beijing last month by announcing unilaterally the recognition of the reincarnation of the next Panchen Lama, the second most important monk in Tibet, after China dragged its feet on the announcement.

Chinese searchers had been prepared on May 1 to announce their confirmation of six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the reincarnation of the Panchen Lama, who died in 1989, a Chinese expert in Tibetology said. The announcement was held up by a dispute between Tibet and Chinese authorities over whether the sixth and last proof -- drawing lots in front of a Buddhist statue -- was necessary to confirm the boy as a living buddha, the source said.

Chinese officials have unleashed a media blitz to discredit the exiled god-king, but have stopped short of writing off the boy as a fake.