11.   The Free Tibet campaigners want the Tibetan people to have the right to determine their own future.

12.   The Dalai Lama and human rights activists accuse Beijing of human rights violations against the Tibetan people.

13.   The Dalai Lama criticized China on Sunday for its aggressive treatment of Taiwan and Hong Kong and its intensified repression of his Tibetan people.

14.   The Dalai Lama is the head of state and spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and established the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, India.

15.   The Tibetan Buddhist leader appealed for an end to such harsh policies, saying that if continued, they could cause the extinction of the Tibetan people.

16.   The Tibetan people strive for self-administration rather than complete independence from China, he said.

17.   He called in July for international support for Tibetan autonomy and the Tibetan people.

18.   But the Dalai Lama said before his departure that the commission had a negative impact on the Tibetan people.

19.   Since then Tibetan people have been pressing for automony, he said.