TIBET: DISMISSED WHO SENDS CHILDREN TO SCHOOLS DALAI LAMA

AGI) - Rome, July 18 - Civil servants in Tibet who send their children to schools opened abroad by the Dalai Lama and his followers will be dismissed without notice: the pro-Chinese government of the region has decided this, quoted by the 'South China Morning Post'. "These regulations", an official note printed by the daily explains, "go against the exploitation of temptations regarding education, of the board and lodging which the gang of the Dalai Lama offers to induce the young to cross the border. Tibetan civil servants whose children already study at those schools have two months to "convince them" to return to China: that way they avoid sanctions or well receive a mitigated treatment; otherwise they will be fired. The drastic measure targets the enormous influence the spiritual Buddhist leader still has in China, an follows the ferocious repression which in March crushed the protests led by the monks.