![]() ![]() His aunt, unable to tolerate the daily injustices of her life, committed suicide by jumping in a river while pregnant. His father was a monk who fled Tibet in 1959, the same year as the Dalai Lama. Sangay never actually lived in Tibet, but his connection to the region's decades-long struggle for autonomy is generations deep. A Tibetan legal expert born to refugee parents in India, he was working at Harvard University when, on a lark, he ran for Tibet's top government job as sikyong, or prime minister, in 2011. OSLO, Norway - In a way, Lobsang Sangay ended up overseeing of one of the world's longest-running political conflicts largely by accident. Tibet's exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama (right) and Lobsang Sangay, the prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile, at a news conference in Vienna on May 25, 2012. ![]()
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