{"id":133901,"date":"2016-05-31T09:09:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T09:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=133901"},"modified":"2016-06-02T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T05:36:53","slug":"dalai-lama-says-too-many-refugees-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=133901","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama says &#8216;too many&#8217; refugees in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">AFP &#8212; May 31, 2016<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_78862\" style=\"width: 522px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dalai-lama2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78862\" class=\"wp-image-78862 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dalai-lama2.jpg\" alt=\"The Dalai Lama: preaching the virtues of poverty while wearing a $60,000 gold watch. Click to enlarge \" width=\"512\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78862\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Dalai Lama<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Tibetan Spiritual leader Dalai Lama said in an interview published that Europe has accepted &#8220;too many&#8221; refugees, and that they should eventually return to help rebuild their home countries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;When we look into the face of every single refugee, especially the children and women, we can feel their suffering,&#8221; said the Tibetan spiritual leader, who has himself lived in exile for over half a century.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;A human being who is a bit more fortunate has the duty to help them. On the other hand, there are too many now,&#8221; he said, according to the German translation of the interview in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Europe, for example Germany, cannot become an Arab country,&#8221; he added with a laugh, the daily reported. &#8220;Germany is Germany.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;There are so many that in practice it becomes difficult.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Dalai Lama added that &#8220;from a moral point of view too, I think that the refugees should only be admitted temporarily&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;The goal should be that they return and help rebuild their countries.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Germany last year took in 1.1 million people fleeing war and misery in Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries, but the flow was reduced sharply by the decision of Balkan countries to close their borders to people travelling through Turkey and into northern Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Dalai Lama also said in the interview, conducted in Dharamsala, seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India, that he hopes to one day return to Tibet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Maybe in a few years,&#8221; said the 80-year-old. &#8220;If an opportunity for my return arises, or at least for a short visit, that would be a source of great joy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thousands of Tibetans have fled their Himalayan homeland since China sent in troops in 1951, and many have settled in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/europe\/Dalai-Lama-says-too-many-refugees-in-Europe\/articleshow\/52522387.cms\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lot of ordinary Europeans would agree with him<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133901"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133905,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133901\/revisions\/133905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}