Kathmandu - Nepalese police Friday detained nearly 140
Tibetan exiles during anti-China demonstrations in the Nepalese
capital Kathmandu.
For the second consecutive day, Tibetan exiles tried to breach
police lines outside China's visa office building which also houses
the consular section and the offices of Xinhua news agency.
Police said they detained the demonstrators after they tried to
cross the police lines and storm the building.
Many demonstrators, including Buddhist monks, carried Tibetan
flags and chanted anti-Chinese slogans.
On Thursday, police detained more than 200 Tibetan protestors
after they breached the police lines and ran to the gates of the
Chinese visa office, kicking and shaking it in an effort to open it.
Tibetan protest organizers say the protests will continue until
their five demands - including, human rights in Tibet, return of the
Dalai Lama to Lhasa, investigations by UN and international bodies
into recent violence in Tibet and greater autonomy - are met.
They also said they remained undeterred by Nepal's crackdown on
the protestors.
Nepal has come under severe criticism for its handling of the
protests by Tibetans since the March 10 demonstrations that resulted
in several injuries during police action.
Nepal has more than 20,000 Tibetans concentrated mainly in the
Kathmandu Valley and Pokhara in western Nepal.
The figure does not include Tibetans who arrived in the country
after 1990 because the Nepalese government stopped registering them
as refugees.
Nepal's government has made it clear that it will not tolerate
anti-Chinese activities in the country.
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