General meeting : Lhasang Tsering

"People living in freedom do not have the right to speak for people living under repression," he says.
"The wishes of the Tibetan people inside Tibet have never been more clear. They have time and again, by the tens and thousands, voted with their lives for freedom. No one votes more clearly than when he is facing certain death. Here, we vote with a ballot box and a piece of paper. If the exile government doesn't know what the people want, what are they doing?"
"It takes two to shake hands and only one to throw a punch. China has blatantly showed us they will not shake our hands," observes Lhasang Tsering, "The Dalai Lama believed the Middle Way would end the suffering of the people inside Tibet. We waited 20 years for China to tell us that they won't change anything. If we wait another 20 to 200 years, there will be no Tibetans to speak of, and we will be finished as a nation."

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