As the talks between the Dalai Lama’s envoys and China failed to yield a breakthrough, Beijing today intensified its attack on the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, accusing him of committing “monstrous crimes” and “fraud” and alleged that a Tibetan outfit based in India had links with terror group al-Qaeda.

The Dalai Lama’s two envoys, Lodi Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, returned to India from talks in Shenzen with nothing more than an assurance from Beijing to hold the next round of dialogue at “an appropriate time”.

At the meeting, the first after the unrest erupted in Tibet posing the most serious challenge to Beijing in the last two decades, China did some tough talking, asking the Dalai Lama to make “credible moves” to stop violence and not to “sabotage” the Beijing Olympics to create conditions for the next round of parleys.

The two sides have had seven rounds of talks since 2002 with no substantial outcome.

“Following the March 14 incident in Lhasa, the Dalai has not only refused to admit his monstrous crimes, but also has continued to perpetuate fraud,” the official Tibet Daily said.

Dismissing the Tibetan leader’s talk about “genuine autonomy” and “greater Tibet region” as “fraudulent”, the newspaper accused the “Dalai clique” of trying to confuse public opinion and trying to “incite ethnic hatred”.

Describing the Dharamshala-based Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) as the “armed spearhead of the 14th Dalai Lama group”, the state-run Xinhua news agency said “TYC has become a terrorist organisation.”

“They (TYC) had also sought mutual support from international terrorist organisations such as Al-Qaeda and East Turkistan groups,” Liu Hongji, expert at China Tibetology Research Centre here, was quoted as saying.

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