Tibetan exiles have gathered in Dharamsala, India, the current home of the Dalai Lama. The exile Tibetan community is trying to decide how to proceed in its struggle against China over the status of Tibet.
China is trying to stage a feel-good Olympics, but in Beijing and the Tibetan areas across China, crackdowns on Tibetan protesters continue. The World’s Mary Kay Magistad reports from an ethnic Tibetan part of Sichuan province.
Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with reporter Tinku Ray in New Delhi, where the Olympic torch was paraded around today amid massive security that kept pro-Tibet demonstrators — and spectators — at bay.
US officials are calling on China to ease up on the protesters in Tibet, and to open a dialogue with the Dalai Lama, but as The World’s Matthew Bell reports, there are no signs of dialogue breaking out any time soon.
