Khmer Krom monk injured during a peaceful anti-Vietnamese demonstration in Phnom PenhTue Oct 16, 2007
Myanmar's beating of monks "very bad": Dalai Lama
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday the Myanmar junta's beating of protesting Buddhist monks was "very bad" and reminded him of China's treatment of Tibetans.
The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, in Washington to receive a Congressional award that has angered China, said he had expressed to U.S. President George W. Bush gratitude to First Lady Laura Bush for championing democracy in Myanmar.
"When I saw the picture of (a) Burmese monk, like the Tibetan monk, like myself," the Dalai Lama told reporters, pausing as he pointed to his maroon robes and shaved head.
"That reflects beating by Chinese (of) Tibetan monks -- very similar -- so therefore, naturally, I felt some very, very strong sort of feeling."
President Bush met with the Dalai Lama on Tuesday despite China's warning that U.S. plans to honor the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could damage relations between Beijing and Washington.
Long before protests in Myanmar first flared in August, Laura Bush made public calls for the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and called on the United Nations to take up the Myanmar issue.
At least 10 people were killed and many more arrested during the suppression last month of the pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks. Myanmar police are still raiding homes and arresting activists.
The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, following a harsh Chinese crackdown in Tibet.
Suu Kyi received the Nobel prize in 1991 and fellow Nobel laureates have repeatedly urged the country's military rulers to release her from years of confinement.
The Dalai Lama said he had made an "expression of my solidarity with the demonstrators" and also told the Myanmar junta to tread lightly with fellow Buddhists.
"The junta, they are also Buddhists, so logically they should follow Buddhist teachings: non-violence or compassion -- and beating a monk is very bad," he said.
The exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader, in Washington to receive a Congressional award that has angered China, said he had expressed to U.S. President George W. Bush gratitude to First Lady Laura Bush for championing democracy in Myanmar.
"When I saw the picture of (a) Burmese monk, like the Tibetan monk, like myself," the Dalai Lama told reporters, pausing as he pointed to his maroon robes and shaved head.
"That reflects beating by Chinese (of) Tibetan monks -- very similar -- so therefore, naturally, I felt some very, very strong sort of feeling."
President Bush met with the Dalai Lama on Tuesday despite China's warning that U.S. plans to honor the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could damage relations between Beijing and Washington.
Long before protests in Myanmar first flared in August, Laura Bush made public calls for the release of democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and called on the United Nations to take up the Myanmar issue.
At least 10 people were killed and many more arrested during the suppression last month of the pro-democracy protests led by Buddhist monks. Myanmar police are still raiding homes and arresting activists.
The Dalai Lama has lived in exile in India since a failed uprising against Chinese rule in 1959. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989, following a harsh Chinese crackdown in Tibet.
Suu Kyi received the Nobel prize in 1991 and fellow Nobel laureates have repeatedly urged the country's military rulers to release her from years of confinement.
The Dalai Lama said he had made an "expression of my solidarity with the demonstrators" and also told the Myanmar junta to tread lightly with fellow Buddhists.
"The junta, they are also Buddhists, so logically they should follow Buddhist teachings: non-violence or compassion -- and beating a monk is very bad," he said.
10 comments:
Ah Chkout (Heng Soy), no one is beating the stupid KKF agent monk. He got into a fight and got caught with a good right-hook, you idiot.
Hey 6:31AM, you are a bastard CPP agent and YOUN's slave. You are the one is Idiot to see a monk's bleeding and blamed for something else.
if your bastard master YOUN didnot order puppet Tep Vong to ask the Vietcong monks came out to start a fight with peaceful Khmer Krom monks while they are protesting to demand YOUN release their fellow monks in kampuchea krom. Now, you tell me who is wrong??? Who started the fight???
Only you idiot dont know about that... because you suck too much shits of the YOUN prostitutes, so your mind are blind now....
Hey, I aint bullshitting you. Just search Youtube; there might be some video there.
Only tmil who dare to hit Monk. These tmil has been born withour a good up bringing from their parents and their family. They were poisoned by mafia and underground people to stir their Nation from growing socially and economically. If they dare to hit the monk already what else they will care for? Nothing. They are the same like Pol Pot. Areak Prey
Only animal don't believe in religion!
Guy, it is not uncommon to get cut in a fight, alright?
Tep Vong is animal disguised as Buddhist monk.
This CPP must be 1 of 5,000 Viet communist sympathizers from North Vietnam called Khmer Viet Minh. CPP Yuon created in 1954.
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Not the CPP from dissolutioned of the Khmer Issarak in 1951. (Khmer}.
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I found the evidents that Tep Vong is one of top secret Agent station at the Siem Reap Regional. called Oddor region.
Tep Vong is Lauk sangk Yuon Bombouss.
Watch out for Vietcong thugs!
You bet, punk!
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