Editor’s note: Although in his senior age, the 14th Dalai Lama, who betrayed China since 1959, has been constantly using various opportunities, such as visiting international countries and meeting the press to distort history and facts and fabricate lies，a few of which have been maliciously fermented into "classic lies" through the international anti-China forces.

Dr. Sun Hongnian, researcher from the Research Center for Chinese Borderland History and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences，revealed the Dalai Lama's lies with historical literature and his field work materials when being interviewed by the China Tibet Online.

History prove Tibetans and Hans are one family, which breaks the lie of "the Hanpeople invaded Tibet" fabricated by the Dalai clique.

"Since 1959, the exiled 14th Dalai Lama and some "Tibet independence" advocators have repeatedly propagating the view of "the Han people invaded Tibet", which is not only a "selective amnesia" to the identity of the 14th Dalai Lama, but also an intentional manipulation to the Chinese history and the Tibetan historical evolution," said Dr.Sun.

Dr.Sun stated that the 14th Dalai Lama, formally Lhamo Thondup, was born into a peasant family in QiJia chuan, Huang zhong County (the Ping An County now) in northwest China’s Qinghai Province in July 1935.

At that time, QiJia chuan was a place where Tibetans, Han and Hui ethnic groups were mixed , among whom the Hui ethnics were the main residents.

Except for the original religion beliefs, it was hard to see the differences between Tibetans and other local ethnic groups.

People in the village basically spoke the Qinghai dialect of Chinese, and only a few Tibetan vocabularies could be used in their daily life.

Chocho Tsering, the 14th Dalai Lama’s father, was a Tibetan full of Han identities as he lived in the Han area. After his father and the whole family moved to Lhasa, they still spoke the Qinghai dialect.

Actions speak louder than words. Tibet has been a part of China since ancient times, and it has been formally incorporated into the central administrative jurisdiction since the Yuan dynasty.

The popular tale of Songtsen Gampo and Princess Wencheng fully reflected the Hans and the Tibetans are from one family. The 14th Dalai Lama and his family also proved that China is a multi-ethnic country.

Dr. Sun pointed out that based on China's historical development and the Tibetan local historical evolution, China had been a multi-ethnic country. With the nation’s mixing constantly between different ethnic groups, there formed today's China and China's territory.

The people of all ethnic groups on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau are a part of the Chinese nation and are “inseparable” in terms of both their economy and culture. The “17-Article Agreement” by the Tibetan local government headed by the 14th Dalai Lama more than half a century ago is still well preserved. Lies can be fabricated, but history is beyond doubt.

The 14th Dalai Lama’s fabrication of the Tibet's peaceful liberation as “Han people invaded Tibet” can only show that he tries to tamper with the history, an intentional “selective amnesia”.

The Tibetan text and Chinese text of the “17-Article Agreement”.[Photo/Files]

Covering up truth，distort human rights situation

The human rights situation in Tibet is one of the main topics used by the anti-China forces to meddle in China’s internal affairs. During their visits to other countries and taking interviews with foreign media, the 14th Dalai Lama and the “Tibet independence” separatists take every opportunity to make up stories about China’s “human rights abuses” and “human rights violations” in Tibet.

However, Doctor Sun exposed the truth that based on his historical literature and fieled research.

In the early stage after the founding of the People’s Republic China, Tibet was still under the dark rule of the feudal serfdom. The serf owners consisting of high-class officials, nobles and upper-class monks carried out brutal political oppression and economic exploitation on the serfs and slaves who accounted for the majority of Tibet’s population at that time. Tibetan people were suffering from poverty, hunger and all kinds of calamities in an extreme backward and isolated society.

Program by Tibet TV tells what Tibet is like today by comparison between old and new.[Photo/XZTN]

“American Tibetologist Tom Grunfeld pointed out that some people had asserted that Tibetan people had enough milk tea to drink, and enough meat and all kinds of vegetables to eat before 1959. However, a survey made in the eastern part of Tibet in 1940 indicated that 38 percent of Tibetan families had never enough milk tea, 51 percent could not afford for ghee and 75 percent had to eat weeds mixed with cattle bones oat and bean cooked together ,” said Doctor Sun.

Photo shows a serf brings her new-born baby to register in the serf owner’s house and pays the poll tax. In old Tibet, serfs were born to be property of their serf owners.[Photo/Files]

The Chinese central government has always been concerned about improving the living standard of people of all the ethnic groups in Tibet. Over the past five decades after the peaceful liberation in 1951, especially after the democratic reform of Tibet, tremendous success has been achieved in human rights, which has drawn worldwide attention.

Nowadays the construction of infrastructure such as railway, road, electricity and communication have been increased in the Tibet Autonomous Region by the Chinese central government, who has also conducted a series of policies in housing, medical care, culture and education to benefit local people .

Transportation in old Tibet fully depends on livestock and labor.[Photo/Files]

On the whole, the improvement of Tibetan people’s living standard since 1959 can be seen by all especially during the last 30 years after the reform and opening up in 1970s. In both urban and rural areas, changes have taken in peoples’ daily life , medical service and education, as reflected in the survey conducted by Doctor Sun in 2007.

“Our living standard has improved greatly since the democratic reform and the reform and opening up,” said the Tibetan farmers and nomads when being interviewed by Dr. Sun.

Harmonious new Tibet [Photo/Xinhua]

Program by Tibet TV tells what Tibet is like today by comparison between old and new.[Photo/XZTN]

Doctor Sun gave another example. Khesum Villageof Trandruk Township, Nedong County of Lhoka Prefecture is also known as the first village of democratic reform in Tibet. When a villager was asked “what big changes have taken place in your family and village since the democratic reform, and what do you think about these changes”, he answered with a smile on his face: “The largest change is that our living conditions have improved dramatically.

 We had electric lamps to use in 1980s, and had begun to drink tap water since 2004 only at a cost of one yuan (about 0.16 US dollar) per person per year. In the past，we burned cow dung and firewood for heat，but now we have started to use liquefied gas in 2003, and methane in 2006, which have become popular in our village.”