Tibetans are also answerable: No one should "rule!"

Western media miss the real Tibet story

Beyond China, there are many vested interests wanting a stake in the future of Tibetan rule.

AFTER several years of highlighting wrongdoers in Asia in these pages and providing viewpoints that run counter to prevailing wisdom, I've at last received my first death threat.

Probably not that serious (it came anonymously by email) but something of a career milestone, nonetheless. It came from someone who claims to be a Tibetan refugee in India and a follower of the Dalai Lama.

My correspondent informed me that the next time I visit India I will be killed (eaten, he said) and my family will never find my body.

What annoyed my correspondent was a column I wrote last year for The Age in which I highlighted some aspects of the Dalai Lama that most media reports ignore: the fact that in running his government in exile, he has been extraordinarily nepotistic by appointing many relatives to senior positions, and that during the 1950s, '60s and into the '70s he was personally on the CIA's payroll, for example.

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Damn saffron-dressed mystical yo-yo's.

Tibetans are also answerable: No one should "rule!"

Tibetans are also answerable: No one should "rule!"

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