Portrait of André Lacroix by Zhao Heping

André Lacroix is a Belgian Tibetologist and the translator of the French version of the book Tibet is my home by Tibetan scholar Tashi Tsering published by French Golias in 2010, source from Guangming Daily on Jan. 23, 2014.

Lacroix shares the same experience with Maxime Vivas, author of the book Dalai Lama Pas si Zen for they have both been to Tibet as journalists, and were touched by a very different Tibet from what has been described by the western media. After their trips, they both began to rebut the lies made by the West from an objective perspective.

On Dec.28, 2013, 19 of the 40-member "Tibet Group" in Assemblée nationale, the French National Assembly jointly signed a so-called "Tibet issue motion", condemning China for "damaging Tibet’s language, culture, religion, heritage and environment", and requiring "Tibet autonomy" and appealing for placing a 'Tibet issue coordinate commissioner'".

In response to this, Lacroix published "An open letter to the 19 members of the Assembly" on the website Tibetdoc.eu, arguing against the three unreasonable demands. It read as follows:

"I was shocked to learn that you raised such a motion for resolving the 'Tibet issue'. Apart from the ‘Free Tibet’, what other sources do you have? As assembly members of a republic advocating atheism, don’t you feel disgraceful when you speak for the theocracy? You have been misled by the prejudice against China and are distorting the facts.