Thank you, Speaker Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi, the Speaker of the House and the third-highest official in the U.S. Government (after the president and vice-president), traveled with 9 other members of the U.S. Congress to Dharamsala, India in an unprecedented display of support for His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the people of Tibet.

The Telegraph (UK) reports:

“The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world,” she said after the meeting.

“If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against Chinese oppression and China and Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak on behalf of human rights anywhere in the world.”

[...]Ms Pelosi laid the blame for events squarely on China’s shoulders.

She called for an international investigation into the protests to “clear the Dalai Lama’s name”.

Indian media report that the White House and former Prime Minister Blair have also weighed in:

“I have read that in Sanskrit the word ‘non violence’ means insistence of the truth. The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience in the world,” she said.

She was accompanied by nine US Congressmen when she went to meet the Dalai Lama.

On Thursday, the White House Administration had interceded on behalf of Tibetan protesters and requested access to tense areas.

Meanwhile, Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair has also said that he wants an end to violence in Tibet and claimed that China also wants the same.



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