A: In November 1956, the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama were invited to participate in the 2,500th anniversary of Sakyamuni's nirvana in India. During their visit to India, certain Tibetan separatists who had exiled themselves abroad immediately beleaguered the Dalai Lama. Instigated by imperialism and foreign forces, they plotted for "Tibet independence." After 1957, the Dalai Lama and separatists in the upper classes of Tibet agreed on their common support in an armed rebellion from one area to the whole Tibet region.
In 1959 Dalai tore up the Agreement of the Central People's government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet, launched an armed rebellion, and fled to India, continuing to conduct activities aimed at splitting the motherland and advocating "Tibet independence." The clique sent their members to mix with the Tibetans who returned to China to visit relatives or travel, distributing leaflets advocating separatism, agitating the masses, and building up separatist forces.
In the early 1960s, with the help of certain Western countries, the Dalai Clique established the so-called "government-in-exile" in India.
In September 1987, while he was visiting the United States, the Dalai Lama put forward a "five-point proposal" regarding the status of Tibet. He continued to advocate "Tibetan independence" through radio broadcasts and other channels, and instigate and plot a number of riots in Lhasa. for instance, in the riots in September and October of 1987 and March of 198, separatists wounded several hundred policemen who were maintaining order, and damaged dozens of motor vehicles.
On October 18, 1987, the Dalai Lama admitted, in an interview with a French journalist, that the riots in Lhasa had something to do with his activities in the United States.
During the more than 40 years in exile abroad, the Dalai Lama and his followers have not ceased their illegal separatist activities, despite the fact that Tibet has been a part of Chinese territory since ancient times.