The 14th Dalai Lama and his clique are doomed to fail in their attempt to realize "Tibet independence" by playing up self-immolations, according to an opinion piece carried by the People's Daily on Tuesday.

Instigating self-immolations in China's ethnic Tibetan areas is among the latest tactics that the Dalai clique have taken in recent years to achieve their political purposes, said the article, bylined Yedor.

Since fleeing China after a failed armed insurgency in Tibet in 1959, the Dalai Lama and his followers have masterminded a series of seriously violent incidents, including the March 14 riots in Lhasa in 2008.

"All of them are aimed at 'Tibet independence,'" the article noted.

Soon after self-immolations occur, the Dalai clique repeatedly demand "peace talks" be held between China's central authorities and the self-declared "Tibetan government-in-exile" for "solving Tibet-related issues."

Leaders of the "Tibetan government-in-exile" in Dharamsala of India have also publicly voiced "hopes" that self-immolations in China's ethnic Tibetan areas will lead to turmoil similar to the 2011 riots in the Arab world.

The Dalai clique intended to use the "talks" trick to pressure China's central authorities into political acceptance of the exiled separatist group, Yedor argues.[ Meanwhile, the clique want to achieve "high-degree autonomy" in the so-called "Greater Tibet" through "talks," the article said.

It followed some Western media in pointing out that self-immolations of Tibetans have already became a means for the Dalai Lama and the "Tibetan government-in-exile" to pressure China for political interests.

But China's unity, strength and rising international status will never be shaken by these inhumane acts, according to Yedor.

Whatever means they take, the Dalai Lama and his followers can't change the general situation of Tibet's development and stability, nor their doomed chances of splitting Tibet from China, the author maintains.

The Dalai Lama himself has publicly applauded the "courage" of the people who died or were injured in a string of self-immolations in Tibetan regions of Sichuan, Qinghai and Gansu provinces bordering Tibet.

Lorang Konchok, a 40-year-old monk from an ethnic Tibetan area of southwest China's Sichuan Province, was found to have goaded eight people into setting themselves alight, three fatally, since 2009.

He acted on the instructions of the14th Dalai Lama and his followers, police said on Sunday, citing confessions and investigations. Endi