Saturday, October 08, 2011

Dalai Lama slams China for its totalitarian system

By Khanyisa Tabata
08 October 2011


The Dalai Lama has accused China's rulers of creating a climate of lies, hypocrisy and imposing "immoral" censorship on its people.

Speaking to Archbishop Desmond Tutu via a radio link-up, the Dalai Lama said telling lies had become a way of life for those following totalitarian systems. He said the Chinese people had the right to know reality.

The Dalai Lama cancelled a planned trip to South Africa to join in Tutu’s 80th birthday celebrations because of the government's seeming reluctance to give him a visa for fear of straining ties with China.

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