China rejected the accusations that it is behind a plot to assassinate the Dalai Lama by sending women to poison him, a spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry classifying allegations as “unfounded”. The denying occurred after the Dalai Lama told a newspaper that he has received unconfirmed information about the existence of an attempt at his life. China has been accusing the Tibetan spiritual leader for a long time for fighting for the separation of Tibet, which has a different culture and language, from the rest of China, according to BBC News Online.
Dalai Lama is spreading rumors just to attract attention of public opinion, according to Hong Lei, a spokesman of Chinese diplomacy, in a press conference. “The allegations aiming at sensationalize the events not even deserve to be rejected,” he said, qualifying them as “unfounded”. “Under the cover of a religious robe, the Dalai Lama is engaged in international anti-Chinese separatist activities,” Hong Lei said.
Chinese newspaper Global Times went further and described the allegations as “bewildering”. “The assassination plot denounced by the Dalai Lama is something rather worthy of a martial arts novel. Disclosing unreliable information, the Dalai Lama seems to look like he is affected by his age,” wrote the newspaper. The accusations come from an interview that the Tibetan spiritual leader offered to a British journalist, who asked about a plot orchestrated by China in order to kill him by women agents.
“Oh, yes. With poison in hair and scarves. And they would say that they are sick and want to be blessed by me. And I would touch them. I received this kind of information,” he said. This type of information can not be verified, he added.
Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, fled his country in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese leadership. He currently lives in Dharamsala, India, and travels the world to obtain support for granting greater rights of Tibetans. China has been frequently denigrated him.
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