Dalai Lama Meets Tibet Party Leaders as Protests Spread to Nepal

By Diane Smith
14:13, March 19th 2008
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Dalai Lama Meets Tibet Party Leaders as Protests Spread to Nepal

A meeting attended by the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan Youth Congress president Tsewang Rigzin and other "Free Tibet" party representatives reportedly took place today in Dharamsala, CNN wrote on its Web site.

Details about the discussion between those attending the meeting aren’t yet available, but it is highly probable that the Tibetan party leaders tried to convince the Dalai Lama to reconsider his "middle way" policy over the region’s crisis.

As expected, the Tibetan crisis has spread in the neighboring states. Demonstrators in the Nepalese capital Katmandu tried to assault the U.N. building but they were stopped by the local police, news agencies reported. Tension over the Chinese crackdown on the Buddhist monks and Tibetan protesters continues mount and spread throughout the region.

Nepalese police forces countered the demonstrators on Katmandu’s streets and put at least 30 of them under arrest. The two sides reportedly clashed in front of the U.N. headquarters on Wednesday according to The Associated Press.

This wasn’t the first time police broke up the demonstrations. Earlier in the week security, the Nepalese demonstrators protested to determine the U.N. on pressuring the Chinese government to "allow demonstrators to exercise their right to freedom of expression and assembly" and "release all Tibetans who have been arrested or detained."

The demonstrations in Nepal came a day after the Dalai Lama threatened to “resign” if violence escalates in the region over the Tibetan protests. Although His Holiness can’t technically resign, the spiritual leader took this measure after the Chinese crackdown on the demonstrators in Lhasa, the region’s capital.

According to Xinhua, the Chinese state-run news agency, about 105 people turned themselves in to authorities by 11 p.m. local time on Tuesday. The reportedly admitted they were involved in planning the protests and also in the clashes between the demonstrators and the Chinese police.

The death toll of Friday’s clashes differs depending on the source. The Chinese authorities said 13 people died, while the Tibetan government exiled in northern India said the number of victims was actually close to 80.

The Dalai Lama called on the Chinese top officials to meet him, but was constantly refused.

"The Dalai is a wolf in monk's robes, a devil with a human face but the heart of a beast," said Zhang Qingli, the Communist Party chief of Tibet, according to AP.

 

 

 



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