PANCHEN LAMA GETS ‘FRESH START’
(N.Z P.A--Reuter—Copyright) PEKING, Sept 2. The Chinese VicePremier, Mr Hsieh Fu Chih, said yesterday that the Panchen Lama had been given the chance to make a fresh start now that Tibet had become an autonomous region of China.
Speaking in Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, he said that after the Dalai Lama fled from Tibet in 1959, the Pan then Lama organised a coun-ter-revolution on behalf of the serf-owning class against the
Tibetan people, the motherland and socialism. “The Panchen's crimes were very serious, but the Party and the people have given him a chance in the hope that he will repent and make a fresh start,” he said.
Mr Hsieh was speaking at the inaugural ceremony of the first People’s Congress of Tibet, marking the establishment of Tibet as a new autonomous region in China He said that last year, the , people of Tibet and the preparatory committee for the (autonomous region had ex- ■ oosed and repudiated the I crimes of the Panchen Lama.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30846, 3 September 1965, Page 15
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