Dharamsala (India), wikinews 18.03.2008 - The spiritual leader of Tibet, the Dalai Lama urged his countrymen once again to renounce the use of force. From the seat of the Tibetan government in exile in northern India Dharamsala, the Dalai Lama announced to resign if the should worsen the situation in Tibet continues, "If things get out of control, is a withdrawal, the only option."
Earlier, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, the Dalai Lama once again made personally responsible for the unrest in Tibet. For this subject, "sufficient facts and plenty of evidence" before. The accusation of the Dalai Lama in the past days, China running into Tibet a "cultural genocide", he pointed at the same time as "lies" back.
He elaborated on the request raised by Western governments to engage in dialogue with the Dalai Lama. China is too such a dialogue if the Dalai Lama to renounce Tibetan independence. The Dalai Lama said today, a complete independence from China does not come from his point of view into consideration. However, he was not in a position to tell Tibetans what they should do. This movement is not subject to its control.
According to the government in exile on Tuesday are again 19 people who were protesting against Chinese rule over Tibet, had been killed. Thus, the total number of deaths had increased to 99. Chinese officials have not confirmed this information.
The Dalai Lama fled after an abortive uprising against the occupation of Tibet to India and lived since 1959 in Dharamsala. The Chinese army occupied Tibet 1950th The unrest in Tibet were at the 49th Anniversary of the uprising in the Tibetan capital Lhasa erupted against the Chinese occupation of Tibet.
COMMENT
General of the United Nations called on the conflicting parties to dialogue. For more, such as observer-posting or Tibet Conference, it appears that the UN is not able to see as their most important powers are instructed in the ongoing conflict with North Korea and Iran on the preliminary work, at least by the reluctance of China.
The dialog prompts yielding fruit after all, albeit still overshadowed by exaggerated accusations, but the dialogue is expressed on both sides. offer
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He claimed third countries "good offices", back out so designated by the parties to the conflict conditions of such dialogue
the greatest common denominator to try to recommend from there the differences in the dialogue.
-Mark Rabago-
