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Dalai Lama says 'right person' chosen for Nobel Prize, raps China
NARITA, Japan, Oct. 11 (Kyodo) - Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Monday that the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize that was awarded to Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo went to the ''right person'' at the ''right moment,'' adding that the move could serve as a
''significant contribution for changing China.''
Speaking at Narita airport and at a nearby hotel during a brief stopover en
route to the United States, he also criticized the Chinese government for
opposing the awarding of the peace prize to Liu, saying China must change but
some ''hard-liners'' were stuck in an ''old way of thinking.''
The Dalai Lama, who won the same prize in 1989, said the Chinese government
does ''not appreciate...different opinions at all,'' but that building an open,
transparent society is ''the only way to save all people of China.''
He noted that many people in China are increasingly seeking openness,
transparency and freedom of information, and so the awarding of the peace prize
to Liu is significant in that there are hundreds of thousands of people behind
him.
Asked about the Chinese government's treatment of Liu, who is currently
imprisoned, the Dalai Lama said China ''must change,'' pointing out that even
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had said political change was necessary.
On reports that Liu's wife was put under house arrest in Beijing after visiting
her husband Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is jailed, he
said the development is ''very sad'' and criticized the Chinese government for
such a ''harsh'' and ''suppressive'' attitude.
The spiritual leader arrived at the airport just outside of Tokyo from Mumbai,
India, in transit to San Francisco.
Liu, a key author of a democratic manifesto that called for sweeping political
change in China, was sentenced to 11 years in jail last December after a
Beijing court convicted him of agitation aimed at subverting the government.
The Chinese government on Friday called Liu ''a criminal'' and accused the
Norwegian Nobel Committee of desecrating the prestigious prize by honoring the
imprisoned dissident.
''significant contribution for changing China.''
Speaking at Narita airport and at a nearby hotel during a brief stopover en
route to the United States, he also criticized the Chinese government for
opposing the awarding of the peace prize to Liu, saying China must change but
some ''hard-liners'' were stuck in an ''old way of thinking.''
The Dalai Lama, who won the same prize in 1989, said the Chinese government
does ''not appreciate...different opinions at all,'' but that building an open,
transparent society is ''the only way to save all people of China.''
He noted that many people in China are increasingly seeking openness,
transparency and freedom of information, and so the awarding of the peace prize
to Liu is significant in that there are hundreds of thousands of people behind
him.
Asked about the Chinese government's treatment of Liu, who is currently
imprisoned, the Dalai Lama said China ''must change,'' pointing out that even
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao had said political change was necessary.
On reports that Liu's wife was put under house arrest in Beijing after visiting
her husband Sunday at the prison in northeastern China where he is jailed, he
said the development is ''very sad'' and criticized the Chinese government for
such a ''harsh'' and ''suppressive'' attitude.
The spiritual leader arrived at the airport just outside of Tokyo from Mumbai,
India, in transit to San Francisco.
Liu, a key author of a democratic manifesto that called for sweeping political
change in China, was sentenced to 11 years in jail last December after a
Beijing court convicted him of agitation aimed at subverting the government.
The Chinese government on Friday called Liu ''a criminal'' and accused the
Norwegian Nobel Committee of desecrating the prestigious prize by honoring the
imprisoned dissident.
