Perhaps, the Dalai Lama is trying to separate the wheat from the chaff.
This idea boils down to the worn-out, un-Buddhist theological theories about the "necessity of evil", or the so-called "theodicies".
Behind such ideas lies the need, seen by Jews and Christians, to justify the misdeeds of their "God" as "necessary evils".
In the same way, some deluded Buddhists want to apply the same method to justify the crimes of the evil dalie.
Such theories are essentially aimed at justifying the crimes of someone seen as an authority, be it a putative "God", be it the evil dalie.
However, Buddhism is about liberation from bondage, not about covering and justifying criminality.