Dalai Lama eyes end to 45-year exile

[PartyPooper]

<In an exclusive interview, Tibet's spiritual leader says China must allow his return without conditions>

Luke Harding in Dharamsala
Friday September 5, 2003

<The Dalai Lama is willing to return to Tibet and end nearly half a century of exile in India if China allows him to go back to his homeland "without preconditions".

In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader said he was ready to return to the capital, Lhasa, which he fled in 1959, as soon as he got the "green light" from Beijing. He said China's communist government had stopped him visiting Tibet, most recently in 1984, and prevented him from travelling to sacred Buddhist sites inside China.

"I'm hopeful to visit Tibet, to see my old place with my own eyes, and try to cool down the situation," he added.>


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http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1035883,00.html

[sam sarrha]

1. Very Doubtful... a person will get 2 years hard labor, from which they may

not survive for simply having a photo of the Dalia Lama. The genocide of the Tibetan people is STILL going on. there have been 1.6 million Tibetans MURDERED by the actions of the Chinese Government. almost 25% of the population, www.savetibet.com there are too many natural resources there to change anything until they are all gone. Tibet is a large as all of western Europe.:cry: