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FREEEAST TURKISTAN SYMPOSIUMthe Tibetans and Chinese in the country. The Qinghai-Tibet railway, opened in2006, has further increased the influx of the Chinese population into Tibet. Everyday thousands of Chinese travel on high speed trains from Beijing to Lhasa. Theinflux of the Chinese population into Tibet is aimed to make the Tibetans aminority in our own land - China’s final solution to the Tibetan issue.In stark defiance of the Chinese government’s position regarding the uprisingof the Tibetan people in March 2008, that of “criminal activities of looting,burning and smashing”, Gongmeng (Open Constitution Initiative) a Beijingbased organization of lawyers and think-tank, published a groundbreaking reportin May 2009 which boldly refuted the official position and put forward the policyfailings of the Chinese government as the reason for the uprising by the Tibetanpeople against the government.The main reason for the high level of unemployment among Tibetan youth isthat the state education is carried out in the Chinese language. Beijing has endedits policy of guaranteeing jobs for Tibetan high school and university graduates,further disadvantaging ethnic Tibetans. According to a Sydney Morning Heraldnews report in 2008, a Chinese official told Australian diplomats and academicsin Beijing that rivers of money from the Chinese government had ended up withethnic Han migrants, leaving an angry class of unemployed Tibetans.There are large new complexes in Tibetan cities and towns to house theChinese population. Beijing spends billions of dollars to make the lives of theseChinese in Tibet more comfortable. However, the Tibetans continue to live in theold quarters and are treated as second class citizens in their own country.The 10 th Panchen Lama in his last public address on January 24 th , 1989 fourdays before his sudden death during a visit to his main monastery in Shigatse,Tibet, said that the Chinese rule in Tibet had “brought more destruction thanbenefit to the Tibetan people”.New measures on reincarnation reveal the Party’s objectives for political controlThe Chinese government announced new measures in 2007, stating thatall reincarnated lamas must have government approval. Those who do not havegovernment approval are “illegal or invalid”.374