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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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