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Birthday Celebration Of Dalai Lama
By KTM Metro Reporter
July 6, 2010: Tibetans elsewhere in the world have celebrated the 75th birthday of His Holiness Dalai Lama today. He has been living in India since he fled Tibet after the unsuccessful uprising against the Chinese domination in 1959. The Chinese authorities have been fearful of he coming back to Tibet, and have been charging him with a secessionist. So, the Chinese authorities have not allowed Tibetans in Tibet to celebrate the birth anniversary of His Holiness.
In Nepal, the officiating government of Madhav Nepal has forbidden even the prayer meeting of Tibetans celebrating the 75th birthday of His Holiness Dalai Lama. The police have detained a number of Tibetans that have gone to attend the prayer meetings to be held at Svoyambhu, Boudha and Pharping in Kathmandu. None of the legislators out of 601-mmber legislature has attended the prayer meeting held at the Jawalakhel Tibetan refugee camp in Patan following the instructions of the government not to attend the event. The government has closed the offices of the representatives of the Dalai Lama in Kathmandu some years ago.
Nepalese political analysts say that the Nepalese authorities have prohibited the Tibetans from celebrating the birth anniversary of His Holiness Dalai Lama and Nepalese legislators from attending the event to please the Chinese authorities. However, two rights activists managed to attend the ceremony at Jawalakhel and one of them Sudip Pathak even spoke and said that the government of Nepal should allow the Dalai Lama to visit Lumbini in southern Nepal.
Hundreds of Tibetans visit India through Nepal for seeking blessing of the Dalai Lama. They risk the arrest by the Government of Nepal when they sneak into Nepal. They also walked through the high altitude trails often on snow for several days and nights. Some of them die on the way to India, and some others get arrested in Nepal.
