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It was the crash of shattering glass that woke up the Dalai Lama’s representative, Dhundup Gyalpo, late at night last week. When he opened his bedroom door, he saw his house filled with billowing black smoke.
He smashed a bedroom window and managed to jump out, narrowly escaping death from smoke inhalation. The firebombing attack on his home near South Africa’s capital, Pretoria, was the second in three months, and he is certain it was meant as a political message.
“It was a tactic to teach me a lesson,” Mr. Gyalpo said. “It was an act of intimidation, to create a near-death experience for me.”
He did not want to comment on the perpetrators. But exiled Tibetan activists said it was pa...
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