Mar

18

Dalai Lama says he will quit if violence goes out of control

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The Dalai Lama said that he would resign as Tibetan leader if the situation veers out of control in Tibet.

“If things become out of control then my only option is to completely resign,” Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, told a news conference at his base of Dharamsala in northern India.

On Tuesday, China accused the Dalai Lama of orchestrating riots in which dozens may have died .

The Dalai Lama, who fled into exile in India in 1959, denied Chinese accusations that he was masterminding protests and said he was against violence.

The Dalai Lama said he had nothing to hide from the Chinese also added if you want to start investigating from here you are most welcome. Dalai Lama reaffirmed that he wanted autonomy for Tibet within China .

Monk-led anti-China protests in Lhasa, the biggest in almost two decades, turned ugly , weighing uncomfortably on the Communist leadership anxious to polish its image in the build-up to the Olympic Games.

More than 2,000 Tibetans gathered from all over India for their biggest rally in the area in years, demanding the United Nations investigate reports of killings of protesters in China.

Led by hundreds of Buddhist monks in maroon robes, some as young as eight, they waved Tibetan flags and marched through the streets of Siliguri, chanting: “We want justice, we want freedom”.



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