South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference

South Africa bars Dalai Lama from peace conference:

"South Africa barred the Dalai Lama from a peace conference in Johannesburg this week, hoping to keep good relations with trading partner China but instead generating a storm of criticism....

because the Dalai Lama isn't being allowed to attend, it is now being boycotted by fellow Nobel Peace prize winners retired Cape Town Archbishop Desmond Tutu and former president F.W. de Klerk as well as members of the Nobel Committee.....

..Tutu was quoted Sunday as calling the barring "disgraceful.""