> Pro-Tibetan Independence groups, as well as the Dalai Lama himself
> had accused China of killing 1.2 million Tibetans. Is the accusation
>  factual?  Or is it a fabrication?
>
> The following is excerpted from "Tibet, Tibet -- A Personal History
> of a Lost Land" written by Patrick French, a founding member and
> a former director of Free Tibet Campaign.
>
> "When I looked at the origin of the 1.2 million figure more closely,
> it turned out that it had first appeared in public in the mid-1980s.
> In response to demands from foreign supporters of the Tibetan
> cause, the exiled government had come up with the sort of
> systematically researched numbers that were needed to impress
> Western legislators. The key thing was to have charts, lists, tables
> and data ? or what looked like data.  A commission was established
> in Dharamsala under a respected official, Kungo Dhakden-la, who
> sent envoys to the main Tibetan settlements in India, Nepal and
> Bhutan to examine the claims of recent refugees.  At the end of
> this process, it was concluded that precisely 1,207,387 Tibetans ...

> Buddhist monks cannot have properties or wealth according to BUDDHISM.
> Then who is this greedy LAMA who always hang on with greedy criminal
> westerners?

> I hope he learned a lot propaganda techniques to fool around like the
> Nasty JEWS who cry rhat 6 million Jews were killed while three and a
> half million Jews lived in Europe.