Published by: World Tibet Network News, Tuesday, May 28 1996

Source: `Xizang Ribao', Lhasa, in Chinese 10 May 96 p1

During a meeting on the anti-crime campaign, Tibet deputy secretary Raidi stressed the need to crack down on violent sabotage activity by separatists. He warned that "the enemy" might do something desperate " like a cornered beast" . The new Lhasa mayor also stressed Lha's role in the campaign. The following are excerpts from a report by the Chinese regional newspaper from Tibet `Xizang Ribao':

Lhasa City held a meeting on 9th May to mobilize people to crack down on serious criminal activities. Raidi, executive deputy secretary of the regional party committee, attended the meeting and made an important speech on behalf of the regional party committee and people' s government... Luosang Toinzhub, secretary of the Lhasa City Party Committee, made mobilization arrangements for the meeting. More than 1,200 cadres at or above the county levels, judicial and procuratorial cadres, and public security cadres and police in Lhasa City attended the mobilization meeting.

In his speech at the meeting, Raidi pointed out the following: The nationwide struggle to crack down on serious criminal activities is being waged according to the party Central Committee's strategic plan for strengthening control of public order and ensuring that the people live and work in peace and contentment... Whether or not one attaches importance to this struggle reflects whether or not he has a mass consciousness and whether or not he pays attention to politics. We must attach great importance to maintaining social stability and public order, ideologically and in deed, and effectively carry out the struggle to crack down on serious criminal activities. If separatists'sabotage activities in a locality are rampant and public order cannot take a turn for the better because leaders there do not pay attention to this struggle ideologically and fail to make effective arrangements or take concrete measures, the party committee and government there will be called into account.

Raidi stressed: Public security, procuratorial and judicial departments are the main forces for waging the struggle to crack down on serious criminal activities and they are duty-bound to do so. They should take stronger measures, exercise their function as a whole, and effectively organize their crackdown actions. They should make careful arrangements and coordinate their actions. In connection with the struggle against separatism, they should put stress on exposing separatists, mobilize the masses in a big way to inform against and expose separatists, and sternly crack down on violent sabotage activities [Chinese: bao li po huai huo dong 2552 0500 4275 0975 3172 0520]. They should adhere to the principle of "sternly and promptly" punish serious criminal offenders to gain a momentum in the struggle and win a high prestige backed up with power. At the same time, they should grasp trends, strengthen their precautions, prevent the enemy from doing something desperate as a cornered beast does [fang zhi di ren g

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In his speech at the meeting, Luosang Toinzhub said: ...Beginning now, we should use the next three months to carry out the struggle to crack down on separatists' sabotage activities and on serious criminal activities throughout the city.

Luosang Toinzhub called on party committees, governments and relevant departments at various levels in the city to clearly understand the guiding principles, to carefully organize the struggle, and to make full preparations for concentrating forces on the struggle. They should make sure that when they take action, they should be able to deal a deadly blow [zhi ming di da ji 5268 0730 4104 2092 2345] at criminals...

Those attending the meeting included Zi Cheng, member of the standing committee and secretary of the political and legal commission of the regional party committee; Tudeng Caiwang, procurator general of the regional people's procuratorate; Zhang Zhu, political commissar of the Tibet Armed Police Group; Kajin, deputy commander of the Tibet Armed Police Group; and responsible comrades of relevant departments. Lhasa Mayor Lobsang Gyaincain [spelt Jamcan by Xinhua news agency] chaired the meeting.