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Article: Dalai Lama slams China for "cultural genocide" in Tibet.
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- PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd.
- Article date:
- April 15, 2008
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Dalai Lama slams China for "cultural genocide" in Tibet
Washington, Apr 15 (PTI) -- The Dalai Lama has slammed China yet again accusing it of carrying out "cultural genocide" in Tibet even as Beijing launched a fresh crackdown against pro-independence monks in monasteries around Lhasa, detaining some of them.
"Since we have our own unique cultural heritage, including our language, our script, these matters should be in the hands of (Tibetans who know) about our culture, about our religion," the Dalai Lama, now on his first foreign visit after the eruption of anti-China riots in Tibet, said.
But with the "present arrangement, whether ...