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Wangpo Tethong* remembers Lhasang Tsering, who passed away just recently, for the remarkably cool-headed manner in which he steered the Tibetan Youth Congress (TYC) as its President when His Holiness the Dalai Lama made his Strasbourg proposal in 1988 of seeking genuine democratic autonomy and self-governance for Tibet in association with the People’s Republic of China, which was against the very grain of his passionate and the TYC’s fundamental position in favour of independence.
It was late in the night of June 14, 1988, in Geneva. Lhasang Tsering and I had checked into a cheap hotel room. All the while, I was wondering how I should justify giving Lhasang Tsering, the president of TYC, ...
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