Obama Snubs Lama
President Obama has elected to not meet with the Dalai Lama while the Tibetan leader is in Washington accepting the first Lantos Human Rights Prize.
Here’s some interesting analysis from English language Russian broadcast, Russia today:
It should be noted that few domestic American news stations seemed to have any similar level of coverage of the event. Seemingly the Letterman extortion scandal is a far more important global issue.
Returning to the Lama, here is his acceptance speech:
And here is an older BBtv piece that I shot about human rights abuses that persist in Tibet: