The South African opposition party Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) attacked India on Tuesday. arrest and trial Dalai Lama for “child abuse” After the discussion initiated by video broadcast too social networks The Buddhist leader asks a child to “suck his tongue” during an event.
“The pathetic apology issued by the Dalai Lama’s office should be dismissed with condemnation. Child abuse is unforgivable“, he said on Tuesday via the social network Twitter, the formation of the radical left, the third political force in South Africa.
Images that went viral on social media show the Dalai Lama. kissing a minor on the lips during a show and in the presence of other adults and then asking him if he can “suck” his tongue.
Seconds later, the Tibetan spiritual leader points to his mouth and sticks out his tongue.
Following the start of the discussion, the Dalai lama office said in a statement this Monday, “I apologize to the child and his family.as well as many of his friends around the world for the damage his words have caused.”
He also argued that “his holiness often mocked the people he met”. innocently and mischievously, even in public and on camera“.
However, for the EFF, “it is revealing that the apology was issued almost a month after the pathetic event and only after the increasing crackdown by activists against child abuse.”
According to the party, “we have to. religious leaders should be protective, not abusive the most vulnerable in society”, therefore “the law should not condone any religious leader who commits abusive acts.
Lhamo Dondhup, the original name of the fourteenth Dalai Lama, fled to India with thousands of his compatriots in early 1959, after China’s crackdown on the failed popular uprising in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa.
It has continued since fight for the freedom of the peopleAlthough he has always “systematically opposed violence”, he was awarded the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize for this.
The Tibetan religious leader was born in Taktser, eastern Tibet, on July 6, 1935, where he became the spiritual leader of his people after being adopted as the reincarnation of his predecessor at the age of two.