BROUGHT TO JUSTICE: Six ethnic Tibetans stand trial in Xiahe County, northwest China's Gansu Province on January 31 for their roles in a self-immolation incident in October 2012. They were sentenced to three to 12 years in prison (JIANG WEICHAO)

The Dalai clique recently published instructions on self-immolation on the Internet to instigate self-destructive behavior in China, as part of its "pro-Tibet independence" efforts. A signed article by Yi Duo, published on China Tibet Online on March 1, said that the Dalai clique's crimes of manipulating self-immolation prove it has acted against Tibetan people's interests.

Recently, the Dalai clique published a Self-immolation Guide on the Internet, openly encouraging Tibetans within the Chinese border to "carry out self-immolations according to the plan and procedures."

The guide demonstrates a sober attitude in scheming and arranging the cruel actions of self-immolations, which makes it stand out among much propaganda of the Dalai clique, and thus soon gets intense scrutiny.

The author of the guide is Lhamo Je, who had been a "member of the parliament" for two terms in the "parliament" of the Dalai clique and is still in an important position in its "educational system." The guide is published in his own name only for the "Tibetan government-in-exile" to avoid public condemnation toward its overt manipulation of self-immolations.

The guide consists of four parts. The first part is an ideological mobilization that advocates the idea that self-immolators are "great and honorable fearless heroes" and that "both heroes and heroines" should be ready at all times to sacrifice themselves for a "just cause."

The second part gives detailed instruction on the "self-immolation preparation," including "picking important days and places," "leaving written or recorded last words," and "asking a couple of trustworthy people to help record videos and take photos."

The third part introduces "self-immolation slogans" and instructs the self-immolators to shout "Free Tibet," "Let the Dalai Lama return to Tibet," and "Release political prisoners," and so forth, and asks them to print out the slogans into leaflets to scatter them on the spots to increase the impact.

The fourth part illustrates "other non-violent activities" such as "loudly shouting campaign slogans at schools and other populated places," "making public speeches," and "filing petitions to the Central Government," and prints out that "it is very important to launch various activities in the fields of politics, economy, religion and culture."

No matter from which perspective, this guide can yet be regarded as "a remarkable piece of writing," for it is tantamount to the "confession" of the Dalai clique that has committed the crime of manipulating self-immolations.

As the head of the "Tibetan government-in-exile" has asked the Central Government to show evidence of the Dalai clique's manipulation of the self-immolations, and "welcome" the Chinese group to go to Dharamsala to search for evidence, they have now made the evidence public by themselves.

The reliability of the evidence not only lies in the source of the writer, a senior official of the Dalai clique, but also in the confirmation of every item of the contents listed by all the self-immolations that occurred before.

In fact, almost every self-burning happened on the spot just like what the guide had planned—someone recording the scene on video, someone shouting separatist slogans, inciting and gathering people to stop the government from taking rescue actions.

Sometimes the Dalai clique was able to hype the burning cases with the photos and personal data of the self-immolators within only dozens of minutes.

The contents of the "last words" shouted by the self-immolators are exactly the same with the guide.

According to Lorang Konchok, who has pleaded guilty of intentional homicide that he acted on the instructions of the Dalai clique, who required him to make use of his status and influence in the temple, and incited, instigated and coerced others to burn themselves with the help of his nephew.

Before the self-burning happened, Lorang Konchok recorded the individual and family information of the self-immolator and took photos for them. Once the self-immolation crime was committed, he sent the information immediately to the Dalai clique through a cell-phone call.

The guide aims to "standardize and systematize the self-immolation behavior so as to manipulate it like an assembly line in the future," and reach the "more efficient" goal put forward by the Dalai Lama.