A dozen Free Tibet activists arrested in Nepal

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A dozen Free Tibet activists arrested in Nepal

2011-06-24 21:57:18 GMT+7 (ICT)

KATHMANDU (BNO NEWS) -- Nepalese police detained a dozen Free Tibet activists after intervening in a Tibetan exiles' condolence meeting, The Himalayan Times reported on Friday.

Police broke up a candlelight vigil held by exiles on Thursday night in the holy Buddhist site of Bouddhanath Stupa for Phuntsok, a Buddhist monk who immolated himself in March to protest the Chinese occupation of Tibet. The incident sparked a wave of protests in Tibet, prompting the Chinese military to crack down on Free Tibet activists.

"We have charged the Free Tibet activists under Some Public Offences Act for their involvement in disturbing peace in the society," deputy superintendent of police Shyam Lal Gyawali said.

He added that police had to intervene after the Tibetan exiles sporting headbands and t-shirts reading 'Free Tibet' tried to stage an anti-China protest.


More than 22,000 Tibetan exiles live in Nepal. The Nepalese government observes a 'one-China Policy' and has vowed not to let its soil be used against its neighbors.

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[maidu]

I have been an ardent supporter of a free Tibet since reading the Dalai Lama's book on the subject in the late 1970's. China can brainwash its people in to believing Tibet has forever been a part of China, but those of us who study the real facts of the matter know that Tibet was independent and sovereign up until the Chinese military forcefully took it over in the 1950's. It would be as if the US took its military south to take over Mexico. How soon would we expect the Mexicans to forget they were an independent and proud nation? Answer: never.

Nepalese officials can be expected to bow to Chinese pressure, but it's still sad - how the suppression continues. There are still hundreds of Tibetan monks and nuns in miserable Chinese prisons. As if it weren't enough for the Han Chinese to forcefully take over Tibet, later the cruelly stupid Cultural Revolution compelled Chinese idiots to go all around Tibet and destroy as many priceless Buddhist relics as they could. That didn't happen hundreds of years ago, It happened a few decades ago. Remnants of the same idiotic, cruel, xenophobic, imperialist Chinese mentality still exists among the Chinese politburo. Don't be fooled by the facade they're trying to show to the world.