Evidence of the CTA’s clandestine activities?This is a well-researched evidential article on the mastermind of the recent anti-Shugden hate mails.
Since the inception of the government of the Tibetan-in-Exile, the ruling party has been obliterating and removing any form of intelligence that questions their behavior, intention and actions. The wipe out process was simple. It is for the Dalai Lama, it is to free Tibet and anyone who goes against this two anthems are enemies of the state. And this gives them right to chastise, rebuke and even physically injure the victimized foes. URL:
http://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/the-controversy/evidence-of-the-ctas-clandestine-activities/On July 6th 2014, an anti-Dorje Shugden hate mail disguised as an appeal to all Tibetans was issued by a newly formed Tibetan group known as the GLOBAL TIBETAN VOLUNTEERS FOR THE TRUTH (GTVT). In the letter, the GTVT calls upon all Tibetans in exile settlements as well as overseas to take “countermeasures” against “evil” Shugden worshippers and safeguard the Dalai Lama against harm (which the letter suggests is posed by Dorje Shugden). In Tibetan parlance this is a call for all Tibetans to do whatever is necessary, including inflicting physical harm on Shugden worshippers, in order to protect the Dalai Lama. This letter came at the back of a highly inflammatory one issued by another mysterious group known as The United Front of The Tibetan People (UFTP), which was nothing short of criminal in its intention.
Over the recent months, as more and more news and evidence of the Dalai Lama’s oppression of his own people became public and cracks began appearing in the spiritual leader’s public persona, there has been a corresponding increase in rabble-rousing and provocative activities against Dorje Shugden practitioners. The Dalai Lama and CTA have always claimed no knowledge or involvement in these underhanded events although it is common knowledge that the CTA regularly whips the Tibetan public into mobs and sets them against factions that the CTA regard as dissenters and therefore intolerable.
Despite the CTA’s denials, more information has recently come to light that seems to point to the CTA’s shadowy presence in these clandestine activities. A search of GTVT’s website raised eyebrows when the ‘name server’ of this new hate-website appeared suspiciously similar to the ‘name server’ of TheTibetPost.com (
www.thetibetpost.com), which is well-known to front for the CTA and act as a platform to disseminate its propaganda.
GlobalTVT’s name server raised suspicions that the CTA might have been behind the hate letter
The relationship between the CTA and The Tibet Post is a curious one. The CTA is not known as a government that supports freedom of press and has a history of interfering in the Tibetan people’s exercise of free speech. It was the CTA that engineered the closing of the only independent Tibetan newspaper, Mangtso, and the same CTA that was rebuked by a US Congressman for its maneuverings in the appointment of senior officers to Radio Free Asia’s management. And yet The Tibet Post’s fortnightly newspaper was launched by the Tibetan Parliament-in-exile’s Speaker, Penpa Tsering, at the Dalai Lama’s main temple in 2012 – a very special honour.
The Speaker of Parliament, Penpa Tsering, launching The Tibet Post’s fortnightly newspaper in 2012
The Tibet Post lists its mission as amongst other things, “to promote through its publications, the principles of democracy, freedom of expression, social justice, political and legislative debate, political pluralism, women’s rights, rule of law, public empowerment, peace, non-violence and peaceful conflict resolution”. But it has not extended any of those principles and values to the faction of Tibetans who have been persecuted merely for their religious practice. Instead The Tibet Post has been carrying the Dalai Lama and CTA’s disinformation and anti-Shugden propaganda, unmitigated.
Examples of CTA misinformation disseminated by The Tibet Post. Click to enlarge image.
More examples of anti-Dorje Shugden propaganda. Click on image to enlarge
The founder of The Tibet Post, Mr. Yeshe Choesang himself seems to have embraced the CTA’s prejudice against Dorje Shugden and has personally written to defend the CTA’s blatant breach of Shugden practitioners’ human rights. A journalist exercising professional integrity would usually address such an important issue analytically and impartially, and push for a resolution of the conflict instead of contributing to the rift and damage. But then we assume that Mr. Yeshe Choesang is indeed a free agent, capable of acting on his own free will. That may not be the case especially with a CTA that has proven intolerant of Tibetans exercising their democratic rights.
If there is any doubt that the CTA has been behind the incitement of hatred and violence against Shugden practitioners, then it should be put to rest when we consider the fact that a contact number provided by the GTVT at the foot of its letterhead (U.S. phone number 1-8028467356) is also listed in the directory of The Office of Tibet, New York, USA, the official agency of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Tibetan Administration to the Americas!
Contact number on the GTVT letterhead. Click on image to enlarge
Notice the similar telephone number for the Tibetan Association of Vermont
One of the key contact persons of the GTVT is Mr. Jamyang Sonam, who is listed in the official website of The Office of Tibet as the Vice-President of The Tibetan Association of Vermont (TAV). And in December 2013, the Speaker of the Tibetan Parliament, Penpa Tsering, visited the TAV just around the time when the CTA renewed and intensified its attacks on Dorje Shugden groups in the face of worldwide protests against the Dalai Lama’s religious ban. Is it merely a strange coincidence that a few months after Penpa Tsering visited Jamyang Sonam in Vermont that the latter should be directly linked to a new anti-Shugden that has emerged and begun its incendiary activities?
Jamyang Sonam and THAT phone number listed on The Office of Tibet’s website. Click on image to enlarge
Like other CTA officials, Penpa Tsering himself has been very active in his campaign against Dorje Shugden and was recently caught on tape distorting Tibet’s rich spiritual history and defaming high lamas such as Pabongka Rinpoche and Trijang Rinpoche in an effort to turn the minds of young Tibetan school children against Dorje Shugden. Even the content and tone of the GTVT hate letter bears all the hallmarks of the CTA’s anti-Shugden propaganda.
Penpa Tsering with members of Tibetan Association of Vermont a few months before the emergence of the hate letter
So once again, we see the CTA’s hand in the formation of an entity which is clearly established to instill fear in the minds of Tibetans and provoke sentiments against Shugden practitioners around the world. It is acts like these that are responsible for creating disunity amongst Tibetans thereby weakening the Tibetan cause, not the practice of Dorje Shugden as the CTA would have others believe. And this is not to mention the criminality in such an activity as well the tort committed against the individuals and groups libellously named in the letter.
Hiding behind the cloak of anonymity and using false fronts are characteristics of criminal or dishonest organizations with much to hide. One does not expect such things from an honest government especially a government that follows the lead of a Nobel Laureate who purports to be a man of peace and truth.
