Two leading Tibet experts said Wednesday that the Dalai clique has continuously harassed Tibet since it was in exile.

Lian Xiangmin, a researcher at the China Tibetology Research Center (CTRC), said at a press briefing that the Dalai clique established in 1959 a base in Nepal which planned armed harassment in Tibet.

Since the 1980s, Lian said, the Dalai clique has changed its tactics but continued harassing Tibet.

The recent riot in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region, exposed the intention of the Dalai clique to support violence in order to achieve "Tibet independence," Lian said.

The Dalai Lama shows himself as a non-violence figure in the global arena, Lian said, but he should be judged only by what he actually did.

Tanzen Lhundrup, another CTRC scholar, said China will not change its policy of religious freedom because it is protected by the Constitution.

(Xinhua News Agency March 26, 2008)