Ashwini Bhatia, APLegal expert Lobsang Sangay has won the election as head of the Tibetan Government in exile, the acquisition of the Dalai Lama's political role.
Ashwini Bhatia, APLegal expert Lobsang Sangay has won the election as head of the Tibetan Government in exile, the acquisition of the Dalai Lama's political role.
The Dalai Lama had said that he would give political but retains the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists. The change, still must be written in the Constitution, the community reverses tradition in which the top monk led the Tibetan Government of 300 years.The winner of the Nobel Peace Prize said, however, in the 21st century is correct for the leaders to be elected and representative. He has also proposed that negotiations with Beijing which has vilified the Dalai Lama for his vocal opposition to China's heavy-handed rule on Tibet would be less complicated under another Tibetan figurehead.Sangay, a senior fellow at Harvard Law School with extensive experience in international law and conflict resolution, won the election with 55 percent of the votes cast by tens of thousands of Tibetans all over the world, chief election Commissioner, Jamphel Choesang said in the northern Indian city of Dharmsala, where the Government in exile is based.Sangay has said that he would move to Dharmsala from Boston when he won the elections. It was not immediately clear when Sangay would office. "On the one hand, we have the Dalai Lama, who historical legitimacy and global popularity, "he told The Associated Press in an interview in March. "And on the second, we have a democratic Government in exile. We show China that, if Tibetans may choose, they are capable of forming a stable democratic Government. "Successive rounds of talks between Chinese officials and representatives of the Dalai Lama don't have clear progress towards the parties together. Beijing accuses the Dalai Lama to separate Tibet from China, despite its claims to only work for a high degree of autonomy under Chinese rule.The exiled Tibetan community in Dharmsala said it would not celebrate Wednesday the election results as it was a Chinese crackdown on a Tibetan Buddhist monastery high in the Himalayan foothills of Western Sichuan province of China protest.China occupied Tibet in 1950 and claims the region has for centuries part of its territory, although many Tibetans, which linguistically and ethnically Chinese are separated, say they were effectively independent.
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