Há meio século o "Lama do sorriso" chorou ao dirigir-se para os Himalaias com destino à Índia.
«March 17, 1959 4 pm. The Chinese fired two mortar shells at the Norbulinka. They landed short of the palace walls in a marsh. This event triggered His Holiness the Dalai Lama to finally decide to leave his homeland.
"... when the Chinese guns sounded that warning of death, the first thought in the mind of every official within the Palace, and every humble member of the vast concourse around it, was that my life must be saved and I must leave the Palace and leave the city at once", recalls His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama in his autobiography, My Land and My People "There was no certainty that escape was physically possible at all - Ngabo had assured us it was not.. If I did escape from Lhasa, where was I to go, and how could I reach asylum? Everything was uncertain, except the compelling anxiety of all my people to get me away before the orgy of Chinese destruction and massacre began".
At 10 pm. on the night of March 17, wearing a soldier's uniform with a gun slung over his shoulder, His Holiness the Dalai Lama marched out of the Norbulinka and onto the danger-filled road to India and freedom His mother and elder sister had preceded him.»
THE GOVERNMENT OF TIBET IN EXILE
Meio século depois já poucos falam de independência
O respeito pelos Direitos Humanos bastaria a quase todos
Se cada Pessoa pudesse, pelo menos, ser reconhecida como tal.
