Dalai Lama Slams China over Tibet Suffering »
Posted By gamahuche 8 months ago in NewsThe Dalai Lama said on Tuesday more and more Chinese were beginning to see a problem with Beijing's rule over Tibet, lamenting how the homeland he fled 50 years ago had become a "hell on earth."
Speaking before some 10,000 Tibetans from around the world, the 73-year-old slammed China for bringing "untold suffering and destruction" during a series of repressive and violent campaigns in Tibet since 1959.
"These thrust Tibetans into such depths of suffering and hardship that they literally experienced hell on earth," he said from the main Buddhist temple in Dharamsala, the north Indian hill town where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based.
"The immediate result of these campaigns was the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Tibetans."
China tightened security across ethnic Tibetan areas, aiming to head off potential unrest on the sensitive 50th anniversary of a failed uprising that prompted the Dalai Lama's flight into exile in India.
Monks, who have initiated many Tibetan protests in recent years, told Reuters they were under close surveillance and riot police blocked roads and turned away foreign journalists from parts of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces.
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The Dalai lama has been remarkably restrained in his utterances - even for a Buddhist.
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This pronouncement seems to be marking a change of course.
With some health problems of his own and without any evident right-hand deputy/successor evident it is worrying what may happen when he is no longer able to fight the good fight.
The situation is already close to a tipping point beyond which recovery will be impossible and the railway to which Dionys refers poses a great threat of Tibet's continuing violation. -
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