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10 March 2009

How badly do you have to behave...

...to piss off the Dalai Lama?
-- DHARMSALA, INDIA -- China has launched a "brutal crackdown" in Tibet since protests shook the Himalayan region last year, the Dalai Lama said Tuesday in a speech to mark the 50th anniversary of the failed uprising that sent him into exile.

Tibetan culture and identity are "nearing extinction," he said in this Indian hill town, where the Tibetan spiritual leader and the self-proclaimed government-in-exile have been based since shortly after fleeing their homeland.

This year, China has largely sealed off Tibet to the outside world.
Didn't I just read about some former Prime Minister coming back from a big business lobbying push in China?

Funny how that works.

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