Following up yesterday's post about South Africa denying a visa to the Dalai Lama. Celia Dugger reports for the New York Times that the peace conference has been canceled.
Two of South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former president F.W. de Klerk, had canceled their participation in protest of the denial of the visa. (Another South African Nobel laureate, Nelson Mandela, was not scheduled to attend because of his fragile health.) The executive director of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, Geir Lundestad, also announced he would not be attending. The conference was canceled soon after.
It is widely believed the government of South Africa denied a visa to His Holiness because of pressure from China.
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