BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- An article, recently published on the website of China Tibet Information Center, criticizes Dalai Lama's distortion of the meaning of the autonomous region.

The signed article, written by Yedor, has analyzed the "middle way", advocated by Dalai Lama in recent years, pointing out that the so-called "middle way" actually goes against China's Constitution and law.

At the end of 2005, when Dalai Lama was interviewed by reporters, he said: "Tibet enjoys the right to special treatment in accordance with the Law on National Regional Autonomy", but "this right has not been really enjoyed."

Sangdong, the chief Galoon, or "premier", of the Tibetan government-in-exile recently said "the policy of the national regional autonomy is very important, but the Chinese Government lacks fairness in following the policy, which does not conform to the Law on National Regional Autonomy".

They impress people that Dalai Lama favors the national regional autonomy but wishes to see the fulfillment of various rights specified in the law, says the article.

However, Dalai Lama has also said: "The course of real peace can only begin when the Communist troops have all pulled out". "A regional peace conference should be convened to guarantee demilitarization in Tibet".

Recently, Dalai Lama entrusted a professor in Hong Kong to draft a document called "limitations and possibilities of achieving 'high-level autonomy' within the framework of the Chinese Constitution and the Law on National Regional Autonomy", which outlines a Tibetan "peace zone" where "no troops should be deployed".

But it is well known in the world that deploying troops in its own territories is a requirement of national defense and also a symbol of sovereignty. Withdrawing its troops from its own territory so as to turn that part of its territory into a "peace zone" will not be approved by any country upholding its sovereignty and dignity in the world. Neither will China, the article says.

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"From this, we see the 'high-level autonomy' Dalai Lama pursues is empty-worded," the article says.

It also points out that Article 4 of the Constitution of China says all ethnic groups in the China are equal, and no one is allowed to discriminate against and suppress any ethnic group, sabotage national unity, and engage in national separation.

Article 48 of the Law on National Regional Autonomy also stipulates that the organ responsible for autonomy in areas exercising national regional autonomy shall work to guarantee all local ethnic groups enjoy equal rights.

However, Dalai Lama said in his "five points" that the Central Government "must stop moving people into Tibet and Han people already in Tibet must return to China".

Sangdong also said last year that, "the areas where the Tibetans reside should have Tibetans exercising regional national autonomy, and the Han and other ethnic groups should act like guests and Tibetans' rights should not be restricted in any form".

All people with knowledge of Chinese history know the areas at the rim of the so-called "enlarged Tibetan area", especially the rim of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, formed a region witnessing considering movement of peoples and where Tibetans, Han, Hui, and Mongolians eventually came to live together and rely on each other. They are all masters of the areas where they live, the article says.

Making non-Tibetans move away from where they have been lived for many centuries so as to satisfy Dalai Lama goes against China's Constitution and the Law on National Regional Autonomy, and shows that, once Dalai Lama becomes leader of Tibet again, he will follow policies featuring national discrimination and national purge, the article says.

Such a policy caused heavy deaths in the mid-20th centuries in some countries and Dalai Lama should know this, the article adds. Enditem