DHARAMSHALA: A crucial meet of prominent Tibetan exiles began here to decide an alternative course for the Tibetan movement with leaders blaming "non-cooperative" attitude of China for the "failure" of the Dalai Lama's 'Middle Way' approach. The Dalai Lama "sincerely" fought for the middle way approach for decades but "due to non-cooperative attitude of the Chinese authorities to find a permanent solution to the vexed issue, it failed," Speaker of the Tibetan parliament-in exile Karma Choephel said addressing the conclave.
Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, based here, Samdhong Rinpoche inaugurated the conclave held amid tight security and attended by over 500 Tibetans from across the world. The 73-year-old Nobel laureate himself stayed away from the November 17-22 special meeting, called by him for the third time after 1951 and 1959 to decide future course of Tibetan movement after the Chinese rejected his proposal on "genuine autonomy" following the eighth round of talks early this month, as he did not wish to influence the delegates.
The conclave constituted 15 sub-committees which will each have an official of the government-in-exile to elicit views to find options to the middle way approach. The sub-committees comprising of members ranging from 31 to 39 will choose their own chairperson and secretary to conduct the closed-door discussion, Choephel said.
The sub-committees will submit their reports to the Kashag (Tibetan cabinet) on November 21 which would compile a comprehensive report on the last day of the conclave on November 22 and submit it to the Dalai Lama, he added. In recent days, the Dalai Lama, who fled to India in 1959 after a failed uprising against Chinese rule, said he had "given up" on the talks with Beijing. Because of Beijing "intransigence", he complained that even after pursuing his middle-way policy of seeking "real and meaningful" autonomy, there hasn't been any positive progress.
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