Dalai Lama calls on UK for more support
Published Date: 23 May 2008
By Gerri Peev political correspondent
THE Dalai Lama has warned that the British government is not doing enough to help Tibetans who are suffering attacks on their human rights from the Chinese. 
On the eve of talks with Gordon Brown at Lambeth Palace, Tibet's spiritual leader urged the Prime Minister to back an international investigation into the violent crackdown on Tibetan protests in March.
He told MPs on the foreign affairs committee that Tibetans were being subjected to a "cultural genocide", although he accepted that there are limitations to what the international community could do.
The Chinese government appeared deliberately to be encouraging Han Chinese to move to Tibet, to reduce the locals to an "insignificant minority", he said.
His tour of Britain ran into a double protest yesterday, as demonstrators came out to voice their opposition to his political and religious beliefs.
The largest group on show were the Western Shugden Society, members of which believe that their religious rights are being repressed by the Dalai Lama.
