Polish president admired Dalai Lama
By Surender Bhutani, IANSFriday, April 9, 2010
WARSAW - Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who died in an air crash Saturday, was an unabashed admirer of the Dalai Lama and always met the Tibetan spiritual leader when he visited Poland.
The president’s soft corner for the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since fleeing his homeland in 1959, was matched by his distaste for China.
Chinese troops overran Tibet after the 1949 Communist revolution.
Kaczynski was killed Saturday with his wife Maria and 130 others in an air crash in Russia.
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