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Johannesburg - Convenors of the SA Peace Conference, which was scheduled to start on Friday, have postponed it because of the controversy surrounding the attendance of the Dalai Lama.
"Given that the purpose of the conference is peace, the convenors don't want to put the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in a position where there will be conflict," Irvin Khoza, one of the committee members, told a media briefing in Johannesburg on Tuesday.
The government refused to grant the Dalai Lama a visa, saying it did not want to remove the world's attention from the 2010 Soccer World Cup preparations.
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WOOT!!! Wonderful!! Bloody marvellous!!!!
*singing and dancing in the streets*
Brilliant, through their own stupid narrow mindedness, they have scuppered their own selfish agenda.
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Ja well, just point and laugh. What else can we do?
Sobering comment there girl ....
Yes, i "we" just point and laugh. Doesn't seem enough.
I'd like to think that sharing info helps to some degree, knowledge IS power after all.
But it takes more than that to change. I gues with knowledge you can decide where to make your move, what petitions to sign etc. But no, they ignoe anything less than violent protest. Are you prepared to set aside millenia of training to MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
um .... *shrug*
peace ;-)
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