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------------------------ World Tibet Network News ----------------------
Published by: The Canada-Tibet Committee
Editorial Board: Brian Given <bgiven@ccs.carleton.ca>
Nima Dorjee <amnesty@acs.ucalgary.ca>
Conrad Richter <conradr@utcc.utoronto.ca>
Tseten Samdup <tibetlondon@gn.apc.org>
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or fax to: +44-71-722-0362 (U.K.)
Send us your comments, announcements, news or items for discussion.
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Issue ID 94/05/11 GMT 12:20 Complied by Tseten Samdup
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1) Hate campaign shatters calm of Dalai Lama
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by TIM McGIRK in New Delhi The Independent, London 11 May 1994
THE Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of Tibet, has
threatened to move their headquarters of his government-in-exile
from Dharamsala, in the Himalayas of northern India, after two
local politicians incited Indians to go on a rampage against
Tibetan refugees.
The calm of Dharamsala, the forested retreat where the
Dalai Lama and 8,000 other Tibetan monks and refugees have
been living since 1960, was shattered on 22 April when an
Indian youth, who be longed to a caste of shepherds known
as the gaddis, was stabbed to death by a Tibetan in a
fight which developed over an India versus Pakistan
cricket match on television. During the funeral Krishan
Kapoor, a politician belonging to the rightwing Hindu
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), yanked the shroud off the
corpse, reached into the cadaver's open stomach, pulled
out a length of intestine, and held it high. "This is what
the Tibetans have done!" he yelled. The mourners went
berserk. Shouting "Death to the Dalai Lama!" and "Long
Live Deng Xiaoping!" the mob stormed the compound of the
Tibetan government-in-exile, smashed windows, set fires
and destroyed furniture. They then looted Tibetan shops
and beat up refugees. Not to be outdone by Mr Kapoor,
the rival Congress politician, a shrill ex-princess named
Chandresh Kumari, helped circulate a petition calling for
the Dalai Lama and the Tibetans to get out of India. The
Dalai Lama, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, was abroad during
these events, but in a statement he said: "To avoid a
conflict becoming a; major problem in the future, it is
best that I move out of Dharamsala. I am very, very sad
that an individual incident has, unfortunately, been
allowed to be manipulated by local politicians' and this
makes it serious." He mentioned moving to Bangalore, in
southern India,' which would mean dismantling the
government-in-exile's offices, Tibetan medicine centres,
libraries, monasteries and schools. In ' all,' more than
100,000 Tibetan refugees are scattered around the country.
In goading the gaddis against the' Tibetans, both Mr
Kapoor and Ms Kumari are aiming to pick up support from
the' poor but' numerous shepherds' community. Even before
the stabbing, the gadds' resentment against the refugees
was high. They blame them for driving up land prices and
envy the prosperity of some Tibetan shopowners. One
recent pamphlet warned: "If ' you Tibetans do no t leave
Dharamsala by 25 July, we will bomb you out."
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