Clifford Coonan of the Irish Times has a piece on the Special Meeting in Dharamsala, India that will help determine next steps for Tibetan government policy towards China. Lhadon Tethong of Students for a Free Tibet is quoted heavily in the piece:

Tibetans wanted a stronger response to China, including the introduction of a deadline by which China should react.

Lhadon Tethong, director of Students for a Free Tibet, which carried out bold demonstrations during the Beijing Olympics, described the outcome as a stark response by the Tibetan people to attacks on their beloved spiritual leader by the Chinese.

“It’s been very refreshing and exciting to see discussion of independence coming back into the mainstream.

“Independence is what the Tibetan people really want and this shows that the people are prepared to make massive compromise, but China has to react. This is a turning point,” she said.

If the Chinese do not make reciprocal moves towards the Tibetan position, then events will turn towards independence, Ms Tethong said.