JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's embassy in New Delhi has denied travel documents to Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, barring him from attending a peace conference in Johannesburg."We believe that the barring of his holiness from the peace conference makes a mockery of the intentions of this conference."
The paper quoted Archbishop Desmond Tutu and a spokesman for de Klerk as saying they would reconsider their participation in the conference if the Dalai Lama were not allowed to come.
"We are shamelessly succombing to Chinese pressure. I feel deeply distressed and ashamed," Tutu told the paper.
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Image, Tibetan leader His Holiness the Dalai Lama delivers the inaugural keynote address at the India Today Conclave 2009, an international forum for ideas and debate, in New Delhi, March 6, 2009.
