As Tibetans mark 65 years since fleeing into exile after an uprising against Chinese rule, the diaspora's elected leader says Beijing is crushing his people, but insists that hope of resolution remains.
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00:00 If you look at the policies of the Chinese government today,
00:05 it's more like they're squeezing us,
00:07 like a python squeezing us out of our breath slowly.
00:11 That's why we are dying a slow death, and people don't notice that.
00:14 [traffic noise]
00:33 China controls Tibet with like an iron hand,
00:36 and then they ask the whole international community
00:38 to keep repeating what they want them to say.
00:41 Then where's the reason for China to come and talk to us?
00:45 The international community is helping China
00:48 to remove the very ground for negotiation.
00:51 [traffic noise]
01:09 I tried my Chinese friends, saying,
01:13 "You're waiting for this Dalai Lama to die.
01:15 You're not concerned about the living 14th,
01:17 but you're more concerned about the yet to come 15th,
01:20 because you know that if you can control the Dalai Lama,
01:22 you can control the Tibetan people."
01:24 [traffic noise]
01:37 Right now, under the present circumstances,
01:40 under President Xi Jinping's paranoia security concerns,
01:45 that exacerbates the whole situation
01:48 where people are deprived of freedom, basic freedoms.
01:53 There is nothing called permanent.
01:55 Even Western psychology says change is the only constant.
01:58 So nobody imagined that Berlin Wall would fall that fast,
02:03 or Baltic states will gain independence and all that.
02:07 But it happened in this lifetime.
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