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By Our Special Correspondent
BANGALORE, DEC. 2. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, the Dalai Lama, today expressed the hope that the Chinese would reconsider the decision to execute Buddhist leader Tulku Tenzin Delek Rinpochne, who is an accused in a bomb blast case in Chengdu province of China He was speaking to presspersons on the sidelines at the seminar on "Mainstreaming of preserving water," at the National Institute of Advanced Studies here. "I hope that as in the past in several cases, the Chinese Government will reconsider the decision to execute the death penalty," he said. A two-year stay on 52-year-old Delek's execution ended today. Delek and another Buddhist activist, Lobsang Dhondup (28) were arrested in connection with an April 2002 bomb attack on Sichuan, the capital of Chengdu province. One person was killed and many were injured in the blast. Two persons were sentenced to death in December 2002 and one was executed in January 2003. Tibetans claimed that Delek was one of the most respected Buddhist teachers in Tibet. According to them, he had been unfairly tried and unlawfully sentenced to death for crimes he did not commit. The Dalai Lama said Tibetan refugees were quite well-settled in Karnataka and they were a peace-loving community. "Over 40,000 refugees from Tibet are settled in various parts of the State and they are living happily." However, some families were living in poverty and "we should take special care of them," he said. The spiritual leader said his visit to the country was purely a spiritual one and had nothing to do with politics. Asked about registration of criminal cases against refugees settled at Bayalukuppe in Kushalnagar taluk, the Dalai Lama said such cases would be handled according to the law.
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