1:44:34
"General Tan Kuan San wishes to invite
the Dalai Lama to a dance recital...
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at the newly erected Great Hall
of the Liberation Army."
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- A dance?
- Yes.
1:44:49
"And because of the climate
in Lhasa, General Tan requests...
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that the Dalai Lama come
without his bodyguards."
1:44:57
"One attendant is fine," it says.
They would like to provide him.
1:45:02
Yes, I'm sure they would.
1:45:06
It's no time to anger
the Chinese, Phala.
1:45:09
There are tanks in the streets.
Airplanes wait outside Lhasa.
1:45:14
I think we can safely say the Chinese
are already angry, Holiness.
1:45:21
What would you do,
my friend?
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- [ Sighs ] I am only a bug, Holiness.
- [ Chuckles ]
1:45:31
Holiness,
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I would think of what survival
for Tibet really means...
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in the years to come.
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I would consider my duty
to protect my people.
1:45:43
And so,
1:45:45
I would leave now...
for lndia.
1:45:53
But I won't do that.
1:45:55
So, write them. Say I am sorry
to miss their dance.
1:45:58
Another time, maybe.