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China warns Dalai Lama not to disrupt Beijing Olympics
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by Sanjay Jha | July 7, 2008 at 03:06 am
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Even after rounds of peace talks with Tibetan representatives China had warned Dalai Lama and exhorted him to keep away from Olympic games.
After latest fence-mending talks on Tibet issue that failed to make any headway, China has declared that future dialogue with envoys of the Dalai Lama hinges on his response to its demands that included not disrupting Beijing Olympics.
At the secretive talks in Beijing last week, China had demanded that the Buddhist leader take "concrete steps" to curb "terrorist" activities of Tibetan Youth Congress-based in India and not to support "plots to fan" violent activities and not to support any argument and activity to seek "Tibetan independence".
"If the Dalai Lama fails to meet such simple and rational requirements, it will be impossible to have necessary atmosphere and condition for next round of contact," an unnamed spokesman of the united front work department of the Communist Party of China central committee, which oversaw the talks, said.
Repeating China's position that the door for dialogue was "always open", he said contacts would make "positive moves as long as the Dalai Lama suits his actions with his words and truly practises the four "not-to-supports (Chinese conditions)," he said. "They are more practical and more convenient for the Dalai Lama to follow".
The second round of talks came amidst rising international pressure on both sides to continue the dialogue to ease tensions ahead of Beijing Olympics as a follow up to the contact they had in May in Shenzen in the first encounter after unrest erupted in Tibet in March. var RN = new String (Math.random()); var RNS = RN.substring (2,11); var b2 = ' '; if (doweshowbellyad==1) bellyad.innerHTML = b2;
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at 05:31 on July 7th, 2008
I met the Holiness Dalai Lama, at Pennabilli, Italy in 1993 ! It was a very peacefull meeting , and also very important for me, it was from long time that I wished to meet Him!
Before making this photo,
He has smile to me and He has been put in rests for me!
He is a great and true spiritual man!!!!
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at 07:52 on July 7th, 2008
Well, Mr. Bush really, really likes the Dalai Lama and he really, really supports him.
But, hey, ceremonies are fun. I guess he will attend the Olympic ceremonies to make up for attending ceremony awarding the Dalai Lama getting the Congressional Gold Medal. Funny, he wasn't worried about insulting China then.
Maybe his attendance at the games is part of the payback to China for ruffling its feathers.
Perhaps the Dalai Lama and the fate of Tibet have been put aside, just as the promise to capture bin Laden "dead or alive".
Human rights are just not the flavor of the day.
at 08:11 on July 7th, 2008
Chinese try to blame all their problems on the Dalai Lama.
We are not buying it, China.
at 08:48 on July 7th, 2008
Sanjay Jha, I like this story. It's good stuff.