11. Feb 2009
Dalai Lama: situation as "very tense"
(AFP) The Dalai Lama warned that the situation in Tibet is becoming "very tense" and that anger could boil over into an uprising "at any moment", Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported. "There is too much anger", he said. "At any moment an outburst could happen. This is my worry because with more violence there will be more crackdowns. Things are very sad". He said that people who are detained are being tortured and sometimes killed. The Dalai Lama said protests over the Chinese government's actions will intensify the crackdown. "Things are very sad", he said. He spoke in the German spa town of Baden Baden, where he received the German Media prize. A 20-member jury selected him for the award on behalf of the German audience research company, Media Control.