The Dalai Lama, the Buddhist icon and Tibetan exile, told MEPs in Brussels on Thursday (4 December) that Tibet was poorer before Chinese rule and that the 6 million Tibetans welcomed the modernisation of their society.
"Ours is not a separatist movement. It is in our own interest to remain in a big nation like China," he said. "We are not 'splittists'," the 73 year-old monk said in the European Parliament's plenary hall.
The Dalai Lama, or Mr Tenzin Gyatso, is on a European tour...
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