<![CDATA[South Africa Disses the Dalai Lama: We're About Human Rights, Just Not Yours]]>

1.0 link 179619 <![CDATA[South Africa Disses the Dalai Lama: We're About Human Rights, Just Not Yours]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mary-wald/south-africa-disses-the-d_b_179619.html Spokesmen for President Kgalema Motlanthe had little explanation for the decision to refuse His Holiness the Dalai Lama a visa to attend the now-canceled peace conference in Johannesburg on Friday.

The best they could come up with was that the conference was World Cup-related, and they didn't want the World Cup to be about Tibet. But anyone who has ever watched a soccer match ---- much less a World Cup match --- knows the chances of that.

What doesn't need...

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