In India, 100 exiled Tibetans are stopped from marching to Tibet from Dharamsala, home of the Dalai Lama. Undeterred, they say they will continue. In Kathmandu, police lob tear gas shells, baton-charge protestors outside the Chinese embassy and arrest 130 activists. And in Lhasa, dozens of monks are arrested for protesting peacefully. Nirmala Carvalho in Asianews.it reports.
On the Tibetan question, diplomacy is once again winning out over respect for human rights. Peaceful demonstrations organised yesterday by Tibetans in exile and in their home country have been blocked, and have led to the arrest of dozens of monks. The demonstrators wanted, in various ways, to commemorate the anniversary of the repression of the Tibetan revolt against the occupying Chinese army in 1959.
In Dharamsala in northern India, agents blocked hundreds of Tibetans who had set out on a “return march” to Tibet. They intended to arrive in early August, in protest against the Chinese occupation of the Himalayan region and against the holding of the upcoming Olympic Games in Beijing.
In BBC News, Tim Luard takes a look at Tibet’s political future
Many Tibetans believe that only the Dalai Lama can save Tibet from extinction.
But even a Dalai Lama is mortal. And they are deeply anxious about what will happen when the present one dies. For Tibetans, he is not just a Buddhist monk, a god and a king – the latest in a centuries’-long line of spiritual and temporal rulers – but a larger-than-life symbol of their unique civilisation.
For the past 50 years, from his sanctuary on the other side of the Himalayas, the 14th Dalai Lama has kept alive their dreams of survival as a separate people.
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