2009-09-11 15:10:17

Dalai Lama receives human rights award in Slovakia


(September 11, 2009) The Dalai Lama has received an international award for his promotion of human rights and his leadership in the nonviolent campaign by Tibetans seeking autonomy from China. After receiving Slovakia's Jan Langos award in Bratislava on Wednesday, the Dalai Lama said he considers the prize “new encouragement” for his efforts to find a “mutually agreeable solution” for China and Tibet. Chinese authorities accuse the Tibetan spiritual leader of seeking independence from Communist China, but the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in northern India, insists he merely wants more autonomy for Tibet. The Jan Langos Foundation, which invited the Dalai Lama to Slovakia, gives its award to “an outstanding figure of the local defiance against oppressed regimes and their security services” and to civil servants and politicians who “endeavour for human dignity and freedom.”







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