Students United Movement of All Arunachal (SUMAA) have been protesting against the Government of Arunachal Pradesh’s adoption of the Tibetan Rehabilitation policy (TRP). They say Tibetans are infringing on the rights of the indigenous population.

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By: Solaray Kusco

In 2014, the Indian government initiated a policy called the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy (TRP). Supporters say that the TRP was the Indian government’s attempt to boost the Tibetans’ standard of living; cynics say that the TRP was agreed to by many state governments, in order to woo Tibetan voters into voting favorably for them.

One such state that is now speaking up strongly is Arunachal Pradesh, in North India. In October 2017, hundreds of Indians in the state began passionate protests against their government, calling upon them to rollback their agreement to implement the TRP. In their protests, they willingly labelled themselves anti-Tibetan. The protests became so heated that Tibetan-owned businesses in Arunachal Pradesh state drew their shutters and required police protection from potential attacks.

The anti-Tibetan sentiment in Arunachal Pradesh joins an increasing number of vocal comments and remarks being made by Indians finally realizing how Tibetan so-called refugees have been taking advantage of the Indian nation’s kindness. Meanwhile the Tibetan leadership stays silent about the situation in Arunachal Pradesh while their people remain at risk of losing their entire livelihoods. It is clear that:

1. The current situation is not the fault of the Tibetan people but of their leadership known as the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) in Dharamsala, North India. The CTA do not implement good policies to expose their people to better education, world politics, current affairs, better job opportunities as well as life opportunities and instead they keep the Tibetan people downtrodden and poor for their own purposes. In doing so, the CTA hopes that the world remains sympathetic to them labelled as ‘refugees’ although it has been 60 years since leaving Tibet, and hence gives them more money and donations. In reality, Tibetans actually have many opportunities in India to better their own lives if they would go beyond their scopes. The CTA does not encourage this within their communities although to sponsors and foreign donors they show a different face.
2. Even their refugee status is being thrown into doubt and the citizens of their host country India is questioning why they are still refugees after 60 years of living freely. The tribal communities of Arunachal Pradesh State in North India who are engaged in anti-Tibetan protests say that Tibetans are not genuine refugees according to the 1951 Geneva Convention which is the main international instrument of refugee law. There are many more genuine refugees in the world that fit the description much better. There are approximately 7,000 Tibetans in the North Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh alone. For example, real refugees do not live in nice houses, own farms, keep livestock, go on holidays abroad, send their children overseas for education, open up businesses, have big golden temples and get to enjoy all of the country’s facilities, while the indigenous population in India continues to suffer and does not receive adequate government aid. This indigenous population are speaking up now against this unfair practice of double standards. The double standards are those of the Tibetans claiming to be refugees and all the ‘perks’ that it accompanies this label, along with having passports of other countries such as Nepal, USA, England, Canada and so on. The head of the CTA or the so-called Prime Minister Mr. Lobsang Sangay has an American passport. If anything should happen in India, he can hop on a plane and fly to safety, quite contrary to the situation that his own countrymen face.
3. So for the Tibetan government to keep using the “refugee” card is a clear indication that they are cheating the local Indian and indigenous population. That is to say, the CTA has the ability to create an environment for their people to do well and thrive, without needing affirmative policies from the Indian government who should be allowed to focus their efforts on the Indian population. Yet, the CTA continue to rely on the Indian government for such policies because it is free and easy money, and this is why Indians in Arunachal Pradesh are so upset. The fact that anger is now being directed at all Tibetans is a very clear indicator that the CTA have not been good leaders in securing their people’s future and current status that now even their refugee status can be attacked. It clearly shows that the CTA and Tibetans have not made themselves welcomed in India even after 60 years. No country will ask an immigrant or refugee to leave if they have lived there for 60 years. So something is seriously upsetting the Indians against Tibetans. Why are they still refugees after 60 years of living in free India?

A banner posted by Students’ United Movement of all Arunachal (SUMAA) in Itanagar, India, on 6 October 2017 stating: “Anti Tibetan Refugee Movement” driving start from 10th October 2017 onwards. We strongly stand firm against the Tibetan Rehabilitation Policy-2014. We seek every indigenous people to join in this rescue mission for the safeguards of indigenous community. Go back Tibetan…! Go back refugee…! Kaling Moyong, Vice Present (Pro) cum Issue Chairman; Tagri Tame, President; Akom Suraj Licu, General Secretary; Taki Longte Ta…, Education Sec’y cum Issue Vice Chairman.

4. The current anti-Tibetan sentiment shows that the CTA has not done much to give back to the people of India for being such a kind host and allowing them to live so freely, with all the additional perks even the locals do not get to enjoy. This shows how ungrateful the CTA is, and that they are all about taking and milking whoever they can manipulate into believing their ‘poor me’ stories. If the CTA had encouraged the Tibetan people to get involved with Indian society and assimilate, open charities, help the Indians and indigenous people, establish clinics, offer medical assistance and so on as the late Mother Teresa had done in India, Tibetans today would be viewed as Indians, and not as a separate community from the Indians. Being a separate community makes it easier for them to be identified as the opposition and enemy.
5. The level of anger we are currently witnessing in Arunachal Pradesh is not a spur-of-the-moment thing. It is not just because of the TRP that Indians are suddenly protesting against Tibetans. In fact, anti-Tibetan sentiments have been brewing for decades, and the TRP just happened to be the straw that broke the camel’s back. Why are the Tibetans still asking to remain as refugees and not assimilate, and furthermore asking for special refugee privileges? Tibetans who migrate abroad to Canada, USA, Japan, Australia, Europe and so forth have to immediately assimilate, apply for permanent residency status or green cards, as well as passports and work. There are no special privileges. So why do they demand or expect this of their most kindest host, namely India? It has been 60 years already. “Assimilate or return to Tibet,” is what the Indians are logically demanding. Pay taxes, join the Indian armed services to protect the land, obey the rules of democracy and so on, and stop crying for help as you pretend to be a refugee.
6. SUMAA (Students United Movement of All Arunachal) are students, so they are not just random uneducated village people. They are educated and they can observe and think, and having analyzed the situation, they have grown to become very angry and are now protesting in the hundreds because Tibetans still want preferential treatment and ask for aid from the foreign countries. What the CTA need to realize is that SUMAA have vowed that this is just the beginning and will not stop until their state government of Arunachal Pradesh rolls back the TRP and rescinds the state’s support of this affirmative action. This type of anti-Tibetan sentiment is growing. It has been brewing in various parts of India for decades.
7. What the CTA also needs to understand is that once one group starts to get vocal and complain about the Tibetans, everyone else will join in too because finally, a group has taken the leap of being identified as anti-Tibetan and it is now no longer taboo to be considered as such. When that time comes, what can the CTA do to protect their people? After 60 years, Tibetans are still more likely to become sweater sellers than scientists, doctors, engineers and so forth. This is thanks to the CTA’s leadership and method of keeping their people uneducated, unexposed and unaware of the world at large for their own exploitative purposes. It is simple: the leadership keeps the population in poverty while they use this to receive aid and line their own coffers. It is well-known that the members of the Tibetan leadership in Dharamsala are wealthy, own houses abroad, send their kids to western countries for higher education, own cars, have foreign passports and can afford overseas holidays. While this method may have been initially intended to protect and preserve the Tibetan way of life, it has spectacularly backfired due to extreme corruption as Congressman Dana Rohrabacher stated. Now, the Tibetans cannot even earn a living safely and uninterruptedly, let alone think of preserving their culture in an atmosphere that is increasing hostile towards the so-called refugee Tibetans.
8. Why does the CTA not say something to placate the situation and make peace with the Indians in Arunachal Pradesh? It is most likely because they know they can do nothing to placate the protestors, as their anger has grown so great. Before it reached this stage, the CTA would have tried to say or do something to quell the anger and so now, it is too late. So how will the CTA help the Tibetans now? Can they speak up for Tibetan refugee rights without angering the local Indian population? What would stop Indians from saying that Tibetans should just leave, which they have every right to call for?
9. The CTA’s treatment of Dorje Shugden practitioners is coming back full circle. What’s happening now to all Tibetans and how they need police protection from the backlash from the Indians, is similar to how Dorje Shugden practitioners had to be protected by Indian police in the past when the CTA directed violence against them. Now the Tibetan community has to suffer because the CTA spent 60 years focused on making personal financial gains from their political positions. Thanks to the CTA’s actions against their own Tibetan people, the entire Tibetan community now has to suffer. Now the majority of Tibetans will know how it feels to live among self created hostility.

Locals have been seen protesting against the Tibetans in the hundreds.

What the CTA should be REALLY concerned about is that this is what is happening to Tibetans while Dalai Lama is still alive. While the Dalai Lama, who commands such massive respect in India, is still alive, there are already people in India calling for the Tibetans to leave. The request seems almost illogical; with nearly 90,000 Tibetans living in exile in India, it is impossible for all of them to leave. Where would they even go? It is becoming all the more obvious now that the CTA has to make friends with China so they have somewhere to go back to at that time, or to become Indian citizens now and be proud and serve the country. The Dalai Lama does not have a foreign passport but an Indian protectorate document for travel. But most of his government members do carry foreign passports but it is kept hush-hush. Ordinary Tibetans will find it prohibitively expensive to do the same.

This situation should be something of concern to all Tibetans, that once His Holiness the Dalai Lama passes away, there will be nothing to stem the wave of anti-Tibetan sentiment that is coming. They will not be able to rely on the CTA to handle it and certainly, Sikyong Lobsang Sangay has demonstrated he is incapable of doing so and will literally ‘fly the coop’ with his American passport. The funds for the whole of the CTA comes solely because of sympathies towards the charismatic Dalai Lama. Without him holding it together and being a magnet for monetary aid, all would collapse overnight. If Sikyong Lobsang Sangay had the ability to control the situation, the present situation in Arunachal Pradesh would not have boiled over into anti-Tibetan protests on the street. The fact there are protests now show that Lobsang Sangay was ineffective in dealing with this. The Tibetans did not make good impression on the Indians for the last 60 years.

After 60 years of living in India, Tibetans are still hoisting their flags throughout the communities in India. What an insult to India. They should be hoisting the flag of India which is the country that gives them safe refuge, education, opportunities, citizenship, free platform to campaign for a free Tibet, headquarters for the safety of the Dalai Lama, jobs and homes. But this shows how ungrateful Tibetans are. In every other country they migrate to, they must salute the flag of the respective countries. India is really kind and generous in all respects and now further is offering Tibetans citizenship which their CTA is refusing. To the public, they ‘encourage’ Tibetans for Indian citizenship but privately, they tell their people to not be a traitor and remain a refugee because the Tibetan cause will be lost, when in truth it is all about losing refugee aid money.

It is the CTA and their underhanded tricks all over again. By taking citizenship, Tibetans can no longer enjoy the free perks of foreign aid and have to fend for themselves. Indians are tired of being insulted and used as a stepping stone for Tibetans to get to another country. When they cannot get to another country, they want to remain as refugees forever, citing not losing the cause for Tibet, then only do they remain in India. Why is India the second choice? Why is India good enough to live as a refugee for 60 years but not good enough to become of citizen of? Tibetans are arrogant and are obviously using India. If getting an Indian citizenship is being a traitor to the Tibetan cause of freedom, then what about the thousands of Tibetans in Europe, Japan, Australia, North America who have already been naturalized as citizens of those respective countries? Are they all traitors also? Tibetans in India remain refugees because is easier to get aid than become a full citizen of a democratic country like India where they would have to fend for themselves like any other citizen.

As time passes, life gets better for most other refugee communities around the world. They are either repatriated as conflict in their homeland dies down, or they assimilate into their host nations and thrive there. Yet with the Tibetans, we are seeing the opposite, as more people become less enamored by the idea of a Shangri-la Tibet, and wake up to the reality that everyone knows is true – after 60 years, the CTA have given nothing back to India and will continue to give nothing back. Even as the Indians themselves speak up against them, with the Tibetan leadership it is truly a case of old habits die hard and at the end of the day, it will be left up to the Tibetan people to suffer. The precarious situation for Tibetans in India happening now is only the beginning of the end.

Indians (SUMAA) Protest Against Tibetans

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Part Translation: “This is not a simple foot march, it is a protest rally and I want to say to the state government and the central government, whoever is behind this policy, to immediately roll it back. If not…this is just the beginning. I will say it one more time, this is just the beginning. And of our people who have come here today came along the road, if tomorrow the chief minister’s office asks, if necessary to save our prestige, we will, the SUMAA will go to any extent. Our demands are that the policy is rolled back.”

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SUMAA Leaders Speak

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Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama offered prayers in Dharamsala to mark the 51st anniversary of Tibetans’ aborted uprising against the Chinese rulers….

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SFT Kolkata organised a Candle Light Vigil on this day to commemorate the Uprising and to stand in solidarity with the 6 million people of Tibet.

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51st Anniversary of Tibet Uprising, 10th March 2010 in Dublin

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March 10, 2010 march to the Chinese Embassy in NYC as seen by Tenzin Loden Gyaldrong

The above video clip is a news report by Al Jazeera, a globally recognized and trusted media network. In recent years, Al Jazeera has developed a reputation for daring coverage and their refusal to shy away from addressing sometimes controversial, oftentimes difficult issues.

The network is also well received for its policy that is characteristically free from political persuasions and restrictions. At a time when many news networks have developed a reputation for bias, Al Jazeera has managed to remain free from such stigma. Since the time of their inception, it has been their objective to provide information that is complete, balanced, unbiased and absent of coloring by Western narratives that have long shaped ‘conventional’ wisdom, and social and political consciousness.

As a result of Al Jazeera’s commitment to unbiased reporting, it is today one of the most popular news networks for the way it fulfills another of its missions, “to give a voice to the voiceless”.

That this celebrated network regarded the Dorje Shugden issue as important enough to cover, attests to the severity of events that have not only rocked the Tibetan community but also pierced the very heart of Tibetan Buddhism. It is a story of how the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) committed what may be one of the most serious breaches of human rights in modern history, right under the noses of nation-states who regard it, ironically, to be a victim of China’s oppression.

In an issue as emotionally-charged as the Sino-Tibetan conflict, it is important to remember that Al Jazeera is a Middle Eastern-owned and operated network that has no stake or vested interest in the quarrel between the Dalai Lama and China. We can therefore safely assume that there is no political agenda in this reporting.

At the center of the storm undermining the Tibetan cause is none other than His Holiness the 14^th Dalai Lama. Although the Tibetan leader is revered worldwide for his public proclamations of peace, love, tolerance and harmony, this penetrating Al Jazeera report provides a vastly contrasting image to the public.

In 1996, the Dalai Lama suddenly proclaimed that he was banning the 400-year-old practice of the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden, an emanation of the Buddha Manjushri. It was a proclamation that ran completely incongruous with the fact that the same Dalai Lama had also declared the Tibetan nation-in-exile to be a democratic state, underwritten by a Constitution that guarantees various freedoms including that of religious practice.

A sign in Sera Monastery, South India. Because of the ban and the resulting heavy-handed discrimination against Shugden practitioners, Sera Mey Monastery later split, with hundreds of monks leaving to Serpom Monastery.

The Dalai Lama’s instruction resulted in widespread condemnation of Dorje Shugden practitioners, and institutionalized discrimination of the practice’s devotees. In fact, the CTA’s actions that followed the Dalai Lama’s declaration proved that in reality, the Tibetan leadership is not a democracy but merely an executrix of the Dalai Lama’s wishes.

The CTA began issuing Cabinet and Parliamentary resolutions that made it permissible to abuse Shugden followers, inferring that it was the duty of every good Tibetan to oppose those who continue to practice Dorje Shugden. At stake, they said, was the precious life of the Dalai Lama. Successive resolutions by the Tibetan Cabinet and Parliament drove the conflict deeper and fueled the animosity between those who chose to obey the CTA’s forced rule and those who decided to remain true to their religion.

In essence, the CTA had institutionalized a constitutionally-wrong purge of people based on their religion, much like the unholy inquisitions in countries like medieval Spain. Tibetan vigilante groups formed to root out Shugden practitioners and eradicate them as, according to the CTA’s May 1996 resolution,

…a matter of highest importance to the cause of Tibet…and the personal security of His Holiness the Dalai Lama,

On the streets, mobs of Tibetans gathered to riot against Dorje Shugden worshippers, attacking Shugden-practicing monasteries until they were stopped by the Indian police who were called in to quell and contain the violence.

Elsewhere, individual Tibetans made a show of their resentment of this new ‘enemy’. Some did so believing in the Tibetan leadership’s propaganda against the religion, while others acted out of fear of repercussions for non-cooperation with the CTA. In some cases, the CTA even threatened fines against people who refused to join the riots against Shugden practitioners.

All over the Tibetan settlements in India, it quickly became taboo to serve, sell or buy from, to educate, to work with and to provide livelihood for Shugden believers or anyone known to associate with these religious adherents. It was, and still is, strictly prohibited to render medical care to anyone even remotely connected to this Protector-deity. Not even hospitals and clinics operated by supposedly benevolent monasteries, who are obliged to observe the Hippocratic Oath if not the injunction of the Lord Buddha himself, dared to defy the Dalai Lama’s command.

A sign in the medical clinic of Drepung Loseling Monastic University denying entry and service to Shugden practitioners. Is such a sign befitting of a clinic situated inside a monastery which is supposed to uphold the tenets of Shakyamuni Buddha, chief of which is compassion?

Monasteries that had been repositories of wisdom and kindness for over six centuries broke with tradition when ordained monks were forced to commit the cardinal sin of breaking their tantric vows to keep the practice. The consequence of refusing to swear out from the practice (as it was soon called) was expulsion from their temples, effectively rendering them homeless. Everywhere the Tibetan government could exert its influence became the scene of old friendships and family ties breaking, each year more destructive than the last as the CTA launched campaign after unrelenting campaign against Dorje Shugden followers. Anger and hatred towards Shugden people also exploded everywhere in the world wherever the Dalai Lama’s portrait hung, and developed its own life-force independent of Dharamsala.

It was difficult for many to accept the Al Jazeera exposé because the Dalai Lama has been an icon of peace, love, friendship and tolerance for decades, traversing the world to preach his message of conciliation. But neither could they ignore the evidence presented in the report or say that people have misread the Dalai Lama’s meaning. The Dalai Lama’s message has always been clear – abandon the Shugden religious practice or face the consequences. For a refugee community so heavily dependent socially, economically and spiritually on their leader, this is something they apparently could not afford to lose.

The CTA imposed a card system so that Shugden practitioners could be identified and marginalized in the same way Jews were forced to identify themselves with armbands during Hitler’s war on Europe. If the ban on Dorje Shugden is just ‘advice’ as the Tibetan leadership like to claim, would such cards be necessary? Why the need to identify Dorje Shugden practitioners from non-practitioners, if it was just advice?

While the Al Jazeera report was able to provide an account of Shugden worshippers’ woes under the CTA’s direction, it is more difficult to document the supramundane costs of the CTA-sponsored attacks on Dorje Shugden. In Vajrayana Buddhism, the Protector is one of three crucial components in spiritual practice, the other two being the guru and the yidam (meditational deity). And in so far as Dharma Protectors are concerned, Dorje Shugden is highly respected and deemed to be of great importance due to the karmic affinity between himself and the people of our time.

So, contrary to allegations levelled against him by the Tibetan leadership, for over 400 years Dorje Shugden has been worshipped and relied on as a crucial component of spiritual practice by the majority of Tibetan Buddhists at one time or another. His practice has been strongly advocated by the highest and most respected masters and scholars. Even the line of Dalai Lamas regarded the deity in the highest terms:

• The Great 5^th Dalai Lama constructed Trode Khangsar, the first chapel in honor of the deity and composed a praise that acknowledged this Protector as an enlightened being
• The 11^th Dalai Lama enthroned Dorje Shugden as the Dharma Protector of the entire Gelug lineage
• The 13^th Dalai Lama is documented to have relied on Dorje Shugden for some of the most crucial decisions of his time
• The 14^th and present Dalai Lama too, entreated Dorje Shugden as an enlightened being in the prayer he famously composed, and referred to Dorje Shugden as the guardian of “Manjushri Tsongkhapa’s teachings”

In fact, the 14^th Dalai Lama trusted Dorje Shugden explicitly. During the political turmoil of 1959, the Dalai Lama followed Dorje Shugden’s advice, given while in trance of an oracle. The advice led to the Dalai Lama’s safe escape to India, away from the clutches of a then hostile China. Dorje Shugden even provided the exact route of escape. This incident has been well documented by the very people who accompanied His Holiness on his perilous journey into exile.

The Tibetan leadership is fond of labelling the ban against Dorje Shugden as just advice, but such a large body of evidence has been compiled over the years that the attack against Shugden practitioners cannot be due to sheer coincidence, and can only be the result of a coordinated ban. It is this information that we present to you here in this website, along with the Al Jazeera video. The fact so much evidence exists, and has been so easily compiled is a sad indictment of the Tibetan leadership, their disrespect for the ideals of democracy, and their maltreatment and abuse of Shugden practitioners for the past 20 years.

A shop in a South Indian Tibetan settlement refusing service to Dorje Shugden practitioners. Such signs have been commonplace since 1996, when the ban on Dorje Shugden was instituted. Overnight, Shugden practitioners found themselves barred from shops and restaurants just like this one.

A shop in Sera Monastery, South India. The red sign at the bottom of the MoneyGram poster announces that Dorje Shugden practitioners are not welcome there.

Gaden Jangtse Monastery, Mundgod, South India, again barring Dorje Shugden practitioners and saying they are not welcomed on the grounds.

Clearly it is no exaggeration to say that these anti-Shugden signs are everywhere in the Tibetan settlements. Here, one such sign is pictured on a water tank in Sera Mey Monastery, South India

Outside a monastery in Sarnath, North India, there is a clear sign that states Dorje Shugden practitioners are not welcome even within the premises of the teaching program. Regardless of whether they actually receive teachings or not, their physical presence there is not allowed at all.

More Information

On the Dorje Shugden ban

• The Illegal Ban on an Authentic Buddhist Practice
• Why Protestors Say The Dalai Lama Is Lying
• Not Just a Simple Advice but an Order

Definitive proof of the Shugden religious ban

• Definitive Proof of the Ban and Discrimination against Dorje Shugden
• Proof of Discrimination
• Chronology of Key Events: 1996

About Dorje Shugden

• Introduction to Dorje Shugden
• The Benefits of Dorje Shugden’s Practice
• FAQs – How Can Dorje Shugden Help Me?
• FAQs – About Dorje Shugden

The Tibetan Leadership’s Stance on Dorje Shugden

The CTA’s official website has a dedicated page to spread disinformation on Dorje Shugden and incessantly attack his practitioners. This is not normal practice for a democratic government, which should be upholding religious freedom amongst its citizens. Imagine the uproar if the American or Canadian governments – or indeed, any democratic state – were to have the same section on their official websites accessible to the public.

The CTA Cabinet statement of May 1996 that blames the practice of Dorje Shugden as being the cause of Tibet’s problems and advocates the opposing of the religion as a national priority. (Source: http://tibet.net/important-issues/dolgyal-shugden/)

The CTA Parliamentary Resolution in 1996 also condemned the practice of Dorje Shugden. In passing such a resolution, the Tibetan leadership officially institutionalized the abuse and segregation of Dorje Shugden practitioners.

All CTA departments and organizations were instructed to not indulge in the propitiation of Dorje Shugden. Effectively, this means that members of a certain religion (in this case, Shugden) cannot be employed by the government or any of its associations. Again, the practice of Dorje Shugden is blamed for the failures of the Tibetan cause. If the Tibetan leadership were truly democratic, why would it matter what someone’s personal religious faith is, as long as it does not impact their ability to do their job and discharge their duties? The fact the Tibetan leadership makes employment choices based on a person’s religious beliefs is not democratic at all. (Source: http://tibet.net/important-issues/dolgyal-shugden/#panel-pJV76q5op4P)

Institutionalized persecutions of Dorje Shugden followers continued into 2014, 18 years after it began in 1996.

A 2014 CTA Parliamentary resolution frames Shugden practitioners in a manner that will provoke the Tibetan people, and labels all Dorje Shugden worshippers as ‘criminals’. As Dorje Shugden worshippers hail from all over the world, is the Tibetan leadership also labelling non-Tibetans as ‘criminals’? In their eagerness to condemn Shugden worshippers, the Tibetan leadership therefore infringes upon the sovereignty of countries around the world by insulting their citizens when there is no basis for such a label. (Source: http://tibet.net/important-issues/dolgyal-shugden/#panel-pJV76q5op4P)