Xinhua News Agency has accused the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) and the Dalai Lama of encouraging self-immolations in Tibet through blog postings by Lhamo Kyab, a former member of the Tibetan Parliament in exile and now living in France. Kalon Dicki Chhoyang of the CTA responded: “Such writings are irresponsible and unnecessarily give excuses to the Chinese government to resort to the blame game and shirk its responsibility for the root causes leading to self-immolations”.