自由時報 | 《中英對照讀新聞》Tutu hopes S.Africa defies China over Dalai Lama…
《中英對照讀新聞》Tutu hopes S.Africa defies China over Dalai Lama 圖圖主教希望南非政府為達賴喇嘛向中國挺直腰桿 ◎俞智敏 Activist Desmond Tutu said South Africa’s government will “shoot themselves in the foot” if they deny a visa to the Dalai Lama to please key trade partner China, a report said recently. 運動人士圖圖主教表示,假如南非政府為了安撫重要貿易夥伴中國而拒絕發簽證給達賴喇嘛,將等於是「搬石頭砸自己的腳」。 Tutu invited the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader to his 80th birthday celebrations next month but Pretoria has yet to announce if it will grant him a visa after denying his entry in 2009 over fears of angering Beijing. 圖圖邀請這位西藏流亡精神領袖下月到南非參加他的80歲生日慶祝活動,但普利托里亞當局至今仍未宣布是否將發給達賴喇嘛簽證,南非2009年就曾因為擔心惹惱北京政府而拒絕讓達賴入境。 “I mean it’s so sad to think that we have had a kind of experience of repression that we have had in that we should want to kowtow to a hugely repressive regime that can dictate to us about freedom and things of that kind.” “For oldies like us…it just gives us a sadness,” Tutu added. 「我的意思是,想想我們過去遭到鎮壓的經驗,現在居然卻要向一個高壓政權屈服,在自由與類似議題上受制於這個政權,真是非常悲哀的一件事。」 The two Nobel Peace Prize laureates are close friends and the Dalai Lama is due to give an inaugural peace lecture to mark Tutu’s October 7 birthday.
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