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Dalai Lama Calls for Autonomy as Only Solution for Tibet
May 30 2009, Vinit

The influx of Han Chinese and the growing restrictions on religious practice have become the biggest threats to Tibet, which faces “something like a death sentence” under Chinese rule, said the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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