China stamps on Dalai Lama’s call for Tibetan autonomy (Guardian Unlimited)
The Chinese government will never accept the Dalai Lama’s calls for “high-level autonomy”, an official leading talks between the two parties said at a briefing yesterday. Tibetan support groups expressed alarm at the harshness of the remarks, which also included an accusation that the exiled spiritual leader was seeking “ethnic cleansing” across the region. A…