Friday, April 26, 2013

Dalai Lama Pleads for Myanmar Monks to End Violence Amid Damning Rights Report

Dharamsala, HP, India, 22 April 2013 (By Muhammad Lila, ABC News) - Amid a damning new report showing official Myanmar complicity in ethnically cleansing entire Muslim towns and villages, the world's foremost Buddhist leader has a message to the Buddhist monks accused of spearheading the violence.

Please stop.

The recent remarks, made by the Dalai Lama during an exclusive interview with ABC News from his home-in-exile in Dharamsala, India, represent his most public condemnation of the Buddhist-led violence that has left hundreds dead and an estimated hundreds of thousands homeless.

"It's very sad," the Dalai Lama said.