Dalai Lama appeals for Tibet calm, offers to quit

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DHARAMSHALA, India, March 18 (AFP): The Dalai Lama Tuesday appealed for calm in Tibet and "good relations" with China, but offered to quit as head of the exile movement if violence in the region worsens.
The Nobel Peace laureate, 72, said Tibetans and Chinese needed to live "side by side," urged his countrymen not to resort to violence and reiterated he was not pushing for his remote Himalayan homeland to split from China.
"We must build good relations with the Chinese," the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader told reporters in Dharamshala in northern India, the base of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
"We should not develop anti-Chinese feelings. We must live together side by side."