  The recently reported microlensing events of the LMC have caused much
excitement, and have been interpreted as due to `dark objects' (MACHOs) in the
halo of our Galaxy. It is shown here that the stars within the LMC play a
dominant role as gravitational lenses and can indeed account for the observed
events. The MACHO event and one of the EROS events lie within the bar for which
the probability of microlensing is consistent with being caused by an object
within the LMC. If the stars within the LMC play a dominant role as lenses, the
events should be concentrated towards the center of the LMC. If MACHOs play a
dominant role as lenses then, for a given number of monitored stars, the events
should be uniformly distributed over the whole of the LMC. Thus the galactic
and the LMC lenses can be statistically distinguished in most cases. It is
further shown that, under certain conditions, the light curve of an event
caused by a star within the LMC would be different from the one caused by a
MACHO. This can also be a distinguishing signature, and seems to have been
observed in case of the MACHO event. The fit discrepancy near the peak which
the authors say ``is not yet understood" would be a natural consequence if the
event is caused by an object within the LMC, which further indicates that the
lensing is due to a low mass star within the LMC itself.
