Tibetan exiles seek new ideas in autonomy drive
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Several hundred Tibetan exile leaders began a meeting today in Dharmsala, India, that is likely to determine the direction of the struggle to win autonomy from China.
The weeklong meeting was called by the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists’ spiritual leader, saying that new ideas were needed after the repeated failure of talks with Beijing.
The Dalai Lama’s envoys to the talks issued a statement saying they had presented a detailed plan on how Tibetans could attain autonomy within the framework of the Chinese Constitution. But China apparently rejected the plan.
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