By Tsering Tsomo
HIROSHIMA, Japan November 2 – The recipient of the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Ms. Betty Williams said Wednesday that the possibility of China becoming a world superpower was a “terribly frightening” prospect.
She was addressing a press conference attended by Japanese and international media at the Aster Grand Plaza Hall in Hiroshima city.
Responding to a question fielded by an exile Tibetan reporter on ways through which China could be convinced that the Tibetan movement was based on the spirit of reconciliation, forgiveness and non-violence, the relentless peace activist said she was “angry with China for what it did to Tibet”.
“I am angry with China for not letting the Dalai Lama live in his own homeland”.
Ms. Williams said China was wrong in consistently blocking the issue of Tibet being raised at the United Nations. She said it was wrong to buckle under Chinese pressure and not invite the Dalai Lama to the 2000 UN Millennium Celebrations where the heads of world’s major religions were invited.
Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu who also addressed the press conference along side the Dalai Lama said it was important for the Tibetan movement to engage the international community particularly the powerful nations on the Security Council so that the Tibet issue could be raised at the UN.
