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The Tibetan spiritual leader, who said his visit to Tawang was not political but religious and spiritual, urged China to honour the rights of six million Tibetans worldwide. “The basic issue is not about my going back (to Tibet). It is about the well-being of six million Tibetans,” he told reporters at the Tawang Monastery.
On Chinese objections to his visit to the state, he said: “It is quite usual for China to step up campaigning against me wherever I go.” He recalled how he came to Tawang 50 years ago while fleeing from the Chinese.
He said the PLA occupied Tawang during the 1962 war. “But the then Chinese government declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew. Now the Chinese have got different views. This is something which I really don’t know. I am a little bit surprised,” he said in an apparent reference to Chinese claims over Tawang.
He said China first established contact with him in the early part of 1980. “The Chinese offered to send an official to Delhi to take me back, but I refused.” China re-established contact in 1993, he said, but there was no headway. “We renewed direct contact again in 2002 with Beijing making a fresh offer. I told them the issue was not of my return but that of the well-being of six million Tibetans ,” he said.
(With PTI)
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So true, These Chinese feel there is nobody to teach them a lesson , they attacked a young and imature India , a country which actually had helped China in its days of hardships. I think the days are coming near when India is going to take revenge of 1962 but teach China such a lesson that it will not forget in next 1000 years.
Its high time that India must do something. China fix muscle again for a false calm on Indain territory.While India bravely help Tibetans other nations are simply enjoy watching China Bullying India and commit crime against hunamity.
Our PM / Defence Minister / External Affairs Minister or PC will not be surprised by this claim. They will say that this is a normal claim which they have been making. They are the people who shamelessly accepted that China is intruding in the Arunachal Pradesh Border and which is normally what they do and blamed the media that they are creating unnecessary hype on the normal intrution of Chinese Military. So Dalailama can learn this art from our Govt.
I think its high time that the Indian government makes it quite clear for the last time to the chinese governtment to lay off their dirty hands off India, otherwise I think the Indian government should cut of commercial ties with china.
It is laughable for the Beijing regime to state that Tawang is a part of Chinese Occupied Tibet (COT). It is not and the Chinese should free COT to be the independant nation Tibet. All Indian people should support freedom of COT from oppresive Chinese regime.