{"id":3725,"date":"2009-03-13T00:12:08","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T00:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2025-09-26T03:07:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:07:20","slug":"the-dalai-lama-china-has-turned-tibet-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3725","title":{"rendered":"The Dalai Lama: China has turned Tibet into &#8220;Hell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times yesterday &#8211; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/11\/world\/asia\/11tibet.html?_r=1&amp;th&amp;emc=th\"><font color=\"#800080\"><strong>Dalai Lama Says China Has Turned Tibet Into a \u2018Hell on Earth\u2019 &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/strong><\/font><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>BEIJING \u2014 The <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/people\/d\/_dalai_lama\/index.html?inline=nyt-per\" title=\"More articles about Dalai Lama.\"><font color=\"#000066\">Dalai Lama<\/font><\/a> delivered one of his harshest attacks on the Chinese government in recent times on Tuesday, saying that the Chinese Communist Party had transformed <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/international\/countriesandterritories\/china\/tibet\/index.html?inline=nyt-geo\" title=\"More news and information about Tibet.\"><font color=\"#000066\">Tibet<\/font><\/a> into a \u201chell on earth\u201d and that the Chinese authorities regarded Tibetans as \u201ccriminals deserving to be put to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the religion, culture, language and identity, which successive generations of Tibetans have considered more precious than their lives, are nearing extinction,\u201d said the Dalai Lama, 73, the spiritual leader of Tibetans.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the NY Times yesterday &#8211; Dalai Lama Says China Has Turned Tibet Into a \u2018Hell on Earth\u2019 &#8211; NYTimes.com BEIJING \u2014 The Dalai Lama delivered one of his harshest attacks on the Chinese government in recent times on Tuesday, saying that the Chinese Communist Party had transformed Tibet into a \u201chell on earth\u201d and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9169,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions\/9169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}