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Singapore
says backs China's policy on Tibet unrest
Daryl
Loo
Reuters
25 Mar
08
http://sport.guardian.co.uk/breakingnews/feedstory/0,,-7409205,00.html
Singapore
said on Tuesday it supports China's policy in the handling of the
unrest in Tibet and opposes politicisation of the Olympic
Games.
"Singapore supports the declared policy of the
Chinese Government to protect the lives and property of its
citizens from violent demonstrators with minimum use of force,"
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement in response
to the situation in Tibet.
"We note the comment of
Premier Wen Jiabao that China is prepared to hold dialogue with
the Dalai Lama based on 'One China' and the renunciation of
violence, and we are relieved that the situation in Tibet is
calming down," the Singapore statement added.
China
alleges the exiled Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, was
conspiring to wreck the Beijing Olympic Games this summer and
masterminded the wave of protests that began with peaceful
rallies in Tibet's capital Lhasa on March 10.
Five days
later, the marches erupted into a riot in Lhasa in which China
says 19 were killed. The Tibetan government-in-exile in India
raised its death toll in the clashes to 130 on Monday.
Although
there have been few reports of new violence or protests in recent
days, the Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday that a mob armed
with stones and knives had killed an armed Chinese policeman in a
Tibetan part of western China.
The Dalai Lama has
repeatedly denied he is behind the protests and violence.
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