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14/11/2008
500+ Tibetans to gather Monday for future of Tibet
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The Tibet Post International 13 November 2008) DHARAMSALA--On Monday over 500 members of exiled Tibetan leadership will meet in Dharamsala, India with His Holiness the Dalai Lama during a series of meetings from 17 to 22 November to reconsider every aspect of current policy towards China, including the current "middle ground" approach and, in the adversity of failing health, the Dalai Lama's responsibilities as Head of State.
The meeting will be attended by invited guests of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, but is closed to the public and non-Tibetans who support the Tibet cause. Media representation is limited only to the opening and closing ceremony. Requiring the authority of the Tibet Parliament-in-Exile, no change will be made officially to the Central Tibetan Administration's policy towards China.
Many Tibetan organizations, including the Tibetan Youth Congress and Students for a Free Tibet, are in favor of striving for complete independence, especially after repeated rejections from China for a meaningful autonomy. "It is time for the Tibetan community to take full responsibility for its future," said Tenzin Choeying, national director of Students for a Free Tibet.
But while many people around the world sympathize with the Tibetan cause, no foreign government will officially challenge Chinese sovereignty over Tibet, and so to set the platform on complete independence may cost Tibet what little international support it has. "I think a pro-independence stance would play straight into Beijing's hands," said Ben Hillman, an expert on China's Tibet policy at the Australian National University. "It would allow them to say: 'See, this is what they were always moving towards," he said.
The Dalai Lama has maintained his position for a meaningful autonomy over independence for over two decades, but in statements made a few weeks earlier in India and Japan, His Holiness admitted to giving up on this approach.
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