Where is the Tibetan struggle standing in international politics today?
People are talking as if the Tibetan issue is politics. It is not. Our problem is not politics, but it is a desperate situation because what the Chinese government adopted since 1949 is unreasonable. For instance, like me: why did I leave Tibet? I had numerous meetings with Chinese generals and representatives in Lhasa persuading them to treat Tibetans as their brothers and sisters. The Chinese leaders in Tibet in 1952 were not in a mood to hear the reasons. The situation deteriorated and reached such a stage. Otherwise Tibetans were not really going to go to the extreme of running away to India. It was a result of being pushed — pushed to a point of no return. I left in 1952. His Holiness and other hundreds and thousands left in 1959. Individuals are still coming out today. So due to unreasonable policies of the Chinese communist government, the situation reached such a stage. Tibetans have no intention to be involved with international politics. We don’t know the power politics betwe
