Dalai Lama's illness raises succession question
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For decades, the Dalai Lama has been the international symbol and frontman for the Tibetan independence movement. He has travelled the world meeting state leaders, and was in the middle of a gruelling world tour, which included Australia, when he was admitted to hospital last week. Although doctors have now given him the all-clear, he has cut his lecture tour short. It has again raised the question of succession, and what might happen to Tibet's independence campaign, if it loses the man so closely associated with it.
Presenter: Sonia Randhawa
Speakers: John Powers, Tibet specialist from the Australian National University, Canberra; Tenzin Atisha, Dalai Lama's representative in Australia; Rebiya Kadeer, president of the American Uyghur Association
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