From: World Tibet Network News, Monday, September 11, 1995

[CND, 09/01/95] BEIJING -- The People's Daily printed an editorial celebrating the central government's 30 year rule over Tibet. The Chinese government sent vice premier WU Bangguo to Lhasa to head local celebrations while nine female Tibetan exiles attending the NGO conference in Beijing silently protested human rights violations in Tibet, Reuter and South China Morning News reported.

The People's Daily and Wu Bangguo vehemently attacked the Dalai Lama for "attempting to separate Tibet from the motherland," and praised the central government for raising the standard of living for Tibetans. International human rights groups showed a video at a section meeting of the NGO women's conference documenting facts of human rights abuse in Tibet and kept police from confiscating the tape. Security was very tight in Lhasa during the thirtieth anniversary period.

(Frank LING, Liedong ZHENG, Jian LIU, Daluo JIA)