-- 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.Didn't I just read about some former Prime Minister coming back from a big business lobbying push in China?
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.
Funny how that works.
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