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Dalai Lama arrives in Dharamshala after visiting Tawang | Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama arrived in Dharamshala on Monday, after finishing his visit to Tawang in Arunachal Pradesh.
Members of Central Tibetan Administration gathered at the Kangra Air Port to welcome
their spiritual head. Tsewang Rigzin, President, Tibetan Youth Congress said that
he was hopeful that Prime Minster Manmohan Singh will raise the issue of Tibetans
with President Obama. "Well I think Prime Minster Manmohan Singh has been there
(United States) since Saturday and he is going to be there for few days. I think
the most important thing as far as I know from the media is that he is going to
talk abut the Nuclear Cooperation with the United States that is for sure, he
may also talk about terrorist related issues Manmohan Singh may also talk about
the Tibet issue with Obama but I'm not sure," said Rigzin. Currently Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh is on a three-day state visit to United States of America during
which he will hold meetings with the US President Barack Obama on various issues.
The Dalai Lama has lived in Dharamsala with thousands of his followers ever since
they fled their homeland after a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.
In 1950, the Chinese troops marched into Tibet and occupied it. An estimated 134,000
Tibetans live in exile, a majority of them in India and Nepal. Sympathizers of
the Tibetans have accused China of repressing the religious aspirations of the
Tibetans, specially, the exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama who won the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1989. Beijing calls the Dalai Lama a dangerous "splittist" plotting
Tibetan independence, a charge he denies. He says he is merely seeking autonomy
for Tibet. |
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