Dalai Lama wants thorough probe into Tibet deaths

November 13, 2012 14:04

Lashing back at criticism from Beijing, the Dalai Lama today said China needs to thoroughly investigate the causes of self-immolations by Tibetans and blamed "narrow-minded Communist officials" for seeing Buddhist culture as a threat.

The Dalai Lama also called on foreign media and members of Japan's parliament to visit Tibet though such trips are severely restricted to see that what is happening there does not go ignored. "I always ask the Chinese government, please, now, thoroughly investigate," the Tibetan Buddhist leader said. "What is the cause of these sad things?"

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