23 Mar 2009
Dalai Lama refused visa for peace summit

Gosh, maybe we shouldn't have "let the focus shift" to apartheid back in the 80's, eh? It was so distracting from our Super Bowls. Human rights champions, my ass.

South Africa has refused the Dalai Lama a visa to attend an international peace conference in Johannesburg this week, a presidential spokesman said. The Tibetan spiritual leader and Nobel Laureate did not receive a visa because it was not in South Africa's interest for him to attend, said Thabo Masebe. "We cannot allow focus to shift to China and Tibet," Masebe said.

(link) [CNN.com]

Update:The dustup canned the whole conference.

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