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Associated Press
March 13, 2008
KATMANDU, Nepal - Police scuffled Friday with about 1,000 protesters, including dozens of Buddhist monks, during a rally in Katmandu in support of demonstrators in Tibet. About 12 monks were injured.
The protest began as a candlelight rally at a prominent Buddhist shrine. It quickly became an angry march, as protesters tried to make their way Friday evening to the Chinese embassy. Police scuffled with the protesters to stop them from marching.
“Today we are demonstrating to support our people in Tibet,” said Gampa Lama, a monk from Nepal’s community of Tibetan exiles. “We are urging the Chinese government for a peaceful resolution.”
A police official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media, said about a dozen monks were injured, none seriously.
Nepal’s mountainous border with China is a key route for Tibetans fleeing Chinese rule. Most of those refugees eventually move to India, where Tibet’s government-in-exile and spiritual leader the Dalai Lama are based.
The Katmandu demonstration came as protests by Buddhist monks in Tibet flared into violence, with shops and vehicles burned and gunshots fired in the streets of the Tibetan capital, Lhasa. A radio report said two people had been killed in what have become the largest demonstrations in nearly two decades against Beijing’s nearly 60-year rule over Tibet.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7296041.st …
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/14/asia/china. …
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/14/tibet. …
SHAME ON MERCILESS COMMUNIST/CAPITALIST CHINA
HUMAN SPIRIT WILL NEVER BE DEFEATED
The New York times is calling for eye-witness accounts/photographs on the protests in Tibet. I thought this might be of interest. Spread the word.
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/a-call-for-eyewitness-accounts-from-tibet/
I am sorry that I can’t give you my real name. I fear retaliation against my relatives in Tibet by the Chinese government.
But Thank God for the technology; the news is at least getting out into the world of what’s happening in Tibet. I believe that there will be light at the end of tunnel.
God Bless People of Tibet!!!!
there are clearer pictures of the demonstrations(in lhasa) on nytimes.com in the gallery section
The more you Tibetans fight, the greater the resistance and the greater the bloodshed on both sides. Obviously your rocks can not win against machine guns. So much for peace.
the chineses have to get out from Tibet Now!!!
chinese stop torturing TIBET.Inside in ur country also many of people shouting for democracy…. shame on u people….
feel sympathy on us if not for HIS HOLLINESS DALAI LAMA…
WAT U PEOPLE WE YOUTH ARE NOT DIE WE ARE ALWAYS THERE FOR OUR COUNTRY…
DONT NEGLECT OUR TIBETAN .
KEEP OUR RESOURCE N PEOPLE SAFELY WE ARE THERE FOR RECIEVED ONE DAY,,,..
As an American, i call on the USA to bomb china so they stop killing and oppressing others.shame on all the countries and athletes who dares to participate at the olympics.
You cannot look to cleans a land of an ancient culture for the sake of country and politics. This is more about respect, or lack there of for the Tibetan culture. “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds…” Our thoughts and prayers are with all of the Tibetan people.
free tibet
free tibet
free tibet
stop torturing the monk in nepal
suckers brahamin nepalese
n fuck gyanendra
The truth is much more complicated. China Tibet is far from a good guy bad guy issue. You people with 3 minute attention span will scream and scream yet not knowing too much about what’s really going on. As to the poster who said bomb China, well, China expects it that’s why they have been building up their defense. Too late for the Iraqis to do anything though.