50 more Tibetan protestors arrested
At least 50 Tibetan exiles, mostly monks, were rounded up by the police while they were organising what was meant to be a peaceful protests in front of the visa-issuance section of the Chinese Embassy in Hattisar of Kathmandu, Tuesday.
The demonstrators chanted slogans against what they called the Chinese occupation of Tibet and 'genocide' going on there during their protests against Chinese government's clampdown on 'pro-indepence' demonstrators in Lhasa which have left about 130 people dead, according to exiled Tibetan leaders.
The peaceful protests soon turned into a scuffle between the police and Tibetan protestors after the latter refused to move away from the site which falls on the restricted zone where all kinds of protests and demonstrations have been prohibited. Police later rounded up the demonstrators by charging at them with batons but avoided injuring anybody. The demonstrators were then forcibly put into vans and taken away from there.
On Monday, police had rounded up around 250 Tibetans while the latter were organising peaceful demonstrations in various parts of Kathmandu. About a dozen of them were also injured when police resorted to baton charge after the protest turned unruly.
Police said all the arrested were later released in the evening.
Tibetan refugees have been carrying out a series of demonstrations in the Nepali capital since March 10. nepalnews.com ag Mar 25 08
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