Dalai Lama Olympic protests
Dalai Lama lies about Olympic Protests
In March 2008, in his ‘An Appeal to the Chinese People’ the Dalai Lama had said:
‘Similarly, despite my repeated support for the Beijing Olympics, the Chinese authorities, with the intention of creating a rift between the Chinese people and myself, the Chinese authorities assert that I am trying to sabotage the games.’
However, on 18 January 2008, (the UK) ITV news together with the London-based ‘Free Tibet’ conducted an interview with the Dalai Lama. ITV News published a piece entitled ‘Dalai Lama calls for Olympic Protests’ and broadcast excerpts of the interview.
Perhaps realizing the Dalai Lama had let his guard down and strayed from his public message, the Department of Information and International Relations of the Tibetan exile government issued a press release saying the Dalai Lama had been misquoted and that he fully supported the Beijing Olympics.
Free Tibet, however, had already published a partial transcript of the interview online.
