Bembya Mitruev* argues that the middle way policy, “the only sustainable official policy of the Central Tibetan Administration”, envisioned by His Holiness the Dalai Lama way back in the 1970s, is an outcome of rigorous democratic and legal procedures, and could not be changed by the simpleness of a private member’s bill, as attempted in the recent Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile session.
Recently, during the second session of the 18th Tibetan Parliament-in-Exile, a private member’s motion was tabled seeking to establish “Tibetan independence” as the official policy of the Central Tibetan Administration. The motion failed to secure a majority at the thres...


