50 Years After Dalai Lama’s Flight, Future Looks Bleak for Tibet
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50 Years After Dalai Lama’s Flight, Future Looks Bleak for Tibet
Unless there is a change in the fundamental nature of the Chinese dictatorship, Tibet will quite certainly languish in its current state.
A full half-century after the Dalai Lama left his home for India, the prognosis for Tibet doesn’t seem too encouraging.
The Dalai Lama himself has alleged that the Chinese are not being serious about negotiations and has hardened his rhetoric, accusing China of making Tibet a “hell on earth” and of viewing Tibetans as “criminals deserving to be put to death.” The Chinese authorities, on their part, seem wedded to their often-hilarious rhetoric that portrays the Dalai Lama as a “splittist” and as a “jackal clad in Buddhist monk’s robes” who wants to break up China.
But the Dalai Lama has time and again insisted over the past many years that the Tibetans want just “meaningful autonomy,” not full independence.
via 50 Years After Dalai Lama’s Flight, Future Looks Bleak for Tibet | The Progressive.
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