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BEIJING — A top Chinese Communist Party official has called for a renewed struggle against the Dalai Lama’s influence, as well as strengthened controls over Tibetan Buddhism, state media reported today.
Jia Qinglin’s comments come weeks ahead of the third anniversary of the most widespread uprising against Chinese rule by Tibetans in decades.
China blamed followers of the exiled Dalai Lama for fomenting the disturbances on March 14, 2008, including a riot in Tibet’s capital, Lhasa, that left 22 people dead.
The Dalai Lama, who heads the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile in India, has denied the charge.
