Dalai Lama: China dumping nuke waste in Tibet

[seemslikeadream]

Sunday, October 3, 2004 Posted: 7:28 PM EDT (2328 GMT)



Mexico has welcomed the Dalai Lama as a religious leader, not a political one, it says.

MEXICO CITY, Mexico (AP) -- Deformed birds and other animals born with birth defects in remote corners of Tibet are evidence China is dumping nuclear waste there, the Dalai Lama said Sunday.

"Logically, if we use common sense, in China proper, (it is) so densely populated that the only suitable area where this nuclear waste could go is Tibet," the 14th Dalai Lama said during a news conference kicking off his four-day visit to Mexico City.

The Buddhist leader, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, has called for greater autonomy and religious freedom in Tibet, but acknowledges it is part of China.

He has lived in exile in Dharamsala, India, since a failed Tibetan uprising against the Chinese government in 1959.

In recent years, the Dalai Lama's supporters in Tibet have charged China has damaged the region's environment by dumping nuclear waste and carelessly exploiting oil, water and timber resources.

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[joefree1]

1. If only Tibet had some oil

Then we might help them?

[AgadorSparticus]

4. boy, you hit that square in the head! what a shame.

the hypocrisy just disgusts me to no end. :mad:

[OutInTheBack40]

5. Where is the Sierra Club on this outrage?

One would hope they would at least speak up on this crime against nature.

[struggle4progress]

2. kick

:kick:

[jdj]

3. I just read today that Navajo youth have 17 times the national

rate of sex organ cancer due to uranium tailings dumped on reservation land.

One more form of genocide.