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Fewer fleeing Tibet to join the Dalai Lama |
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Posted 7/28/2010 at 9:58 AM by Bradlee A in Community Blog
Affiliate: World: India |
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Fewer and fewer Tibetans are fleeing their homeland to live in exile with the Dalai Lama, says an article from the Agence France-Presse. China, which has considered the Tibetans fleeing for India a nuisance since 1959, when His Holiness made the trip across the Himalayas, has found a technique for slowing the migrations:
AFP wrote:
An almost empty dormitory in the gloomy main reception centre for Tibetan exiles in Dharamshala, the Indian hilltown home to the community, is a graphic illustration of changes that have taken place over the last 18 months. India has sheltered Tibetans since 1959, when the Dalai Lama fled his homeland in fear for his life after a failed uprising against Chinese rule on the strategic Tibetan plateau.
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In March 2008, the date when arrivals in Dharamshala began falling, the capital of Tibet was convulsed by a wave of violent protests against Chinese rule that left an unknown number of people dead and injured. China says 22 people died in the violence, which spread from Lhasa across Tibet and neighbouring regions with large populations of ethnic Tibetans. The Tibetan government-in-exile says more than 200 died and 1,000 were hurt. |
To read the full article, click here.
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