Dalai Lama Targeted for Assassination?

Originally posted by InSpiteOf
Have you ever met him before? would you recognize him if i posted a picture of him? (i think its him, i think the guy i knew when i was young is the same guy your father knows.)

I have never met him, and my father only has a few times but I would recognise him certainly..

Originally posted by Xeros
I have never met him, and my father only has a few times but I would recognise him certainly.

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Like i said im not 100% thats its the same guy but similarities are striking (from stuff i read on your wiki link) I have a picture of the guy on my fridge and when i get home ill scan it and post it. maybe tonight or tomorrow.

What's the identification confusion all about?

Dalai Lama:

reply to post by makeitso

I guess most of you are not aware of the Buddhist Muslim conflict around the world.

In tibet, its not just about china but a racial cleansing. In the last riots The Buddhist monks burned down all the Muslim Mosques.

To say that China is behind the assassination is quite ridiculous. Just do your research on the subject.

The March 14th riots were primary targeted at Chinese muslims. Possible revenge attack against the Tibetans because of the Tibetan killings of muslims?. Interesting to note that the Tibetans have been crying about religious freedoms when they are stopping another group from practising their religion

Disputes such as that one last summer are common in western China, where a volatile ethnic stew is increasingly erupting into violence. Among China's dozens of minorities, few get along as badly as Tibetans and Muslims. Animosities have played a major -- and largely unreported -- role in the clashes that have taken place since mid-March. During the March 14 riots in the Tibetan region's capital, Lhasa, many of the shops and restaurants attacked were Muslim-owned. A mob tried to storm the city's main mosque and succeeded in setting fire to the front gate. Shops and restaurants in the Muslim quarter were destroyed.

Over the last five years, there have been dozens of clashes between Tibetans and Muslims in Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai provinces, as well as in the Tibet Autonomous Region. Most of the incidents go unreported. The state-controlled news media are not eager to publicize anything that belies Communist Party claims that minorities live together in a "harmonious society."

Andrew M. Fischer, a London-based Tibet scholar who is one of the few who has written on the subject, said the Tibetan exile community also was reluctant to publicize incidents that might harm the international image of Tibetans.

"It is the dark side of Tibetan nationalism," Fischer said. "It is almost as though the Tibetans are diverting their anger over their own situation towards another vulnerable minority."

Most of the incidents involve the Hui, who ethnically are Han Chinese but practice Islam. China's 9.8 million Hui and 5.4 million Tibetans historically have lived in proximity, at various times fighting, competing or intermarrying and collaborating.

The men said about 800 of Guojia's 3,000 Muslims had left in recent months, frightened by what had happened in Lhasa. During the mid-March riots, Muslim shopkeepers and their families were badly hurt and some were killed when fires set in their shops spread to upstairs apartments.

Many Muslims have stopped wearing the traditional white caps that identify their religion. Many women now wear a hairnet instead of a scarf. Since the nearest mosque was burned down in August, the Muslims pray at home -- "in secret," Ma said.

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