At approximately 9:50 PM, the Presidents of five NGOs, Tsewang Rigzin, B. Tsering, Ngawang Woebar, Chime Youngdung, and Tenzin Choeying, and March Coordinator Lobsang Yeshi were taken to Ganai Gangoli, where they were first charged. They were taken to meet the District Magistrate for a hearing of their case.
Early this morning, the 265 marchers detained at Berinag were dropped off at Paonta Sahib, just inside Himachal Pradesh. They received a warm welcome from the Tibetan community there.
International Herald Tribune
NEW DELHI (AP) - Indian police have arrested 265 Tibetan exiles marching to their homeland to protest Chinese rule and will send them back to the northern Indian town where they began their protest nearly three months ago, an official said Thursday.
Police arrested the protesters on Wednesday about 180 kilometers (115 miles) from India’s border with China leading to Tibet, local administrator Sainthil Pandiyan said. (more…)
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June 4, 2008
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INDIAN POLICE ARREST 265 TIBETANS MARCHING TO TIBET
March had just resumed after 13-day standoff as China prepares to take Olympic torch to Tibet
Nainital - 259 Tibetan marchers and six members of the organizing committee were arrested by police after resuming the March to Tibet following a 13 day stand-off with police. They had covered 16 kilometers when they were arrested at Berinag, approximately 180 kilometers from the Indo-Tibetan border area. Fifty marchers, including leading Tibetan activist Tenzin Tsundue and Shingza Rinpoche of Sera Monastery, stayed behind at the the campsite at Banspatan in Uttarakhand State, determined to continue to Tibet in the event that their fellow marchers were stopped. The five presidents of the NGOs organizing the March and one coordinator are still being held in Roshanabad Jail near Hardwar. (more…)
At 8:45am today, 260 marchers departed from their campsite at Banspatan after a 13-day standoff with the police. As we write this update, we’re hearing reports that the marchers are walking in the rain and entering the town of Berinag after walking 16 kilometers. Witness reports confirm that there are several truckloads of police passing the marchers as they walked in line, singing and praying.
With a distance of 180 kilometers seperating them from the border, the marchers are determined to continue the march. The rain has stopped, but the singing and praying go on.
These videos were recorded on May 29, 2008.
As police block entrance to the campsite at Banspatan, Marchers sing Mimang Langlu - Uprising Song.
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INDIAN SUPPORTERS EXPRESS CONCERNS OVER POLICE PRESSURE ON MARCH TO TIBET
Marchers remain resolute despite limited food supply and imprisoned leaders
Almora - Today preeminent Gandhians, Rajiv and Neeru Vora, and long time Tibet supporter, Asha Reddy, held a press conference in Almora to lend their support to the marchers and to explain the current situation on the March to Tibet.
For the last 10 days, the Marchers have been under massive police pressure to withdraw from their campsite at Banspatan, Uttarakhand State. Police have confiscated all four of the March’s trucks, and have told marchers trying to leave the area that they would not be allowed to re-enter the site. Upon hearing that the marchers’ food supply had been blocked, Founder of Swarajpeeth, Rajiv Vora, Founder/Director of Swarajpeeth, Neeru Vora, as well as Asha Reddy, decided to travel to the March to see what they could do to help. (more…)
“When the clouds part, you can see Tibet on the horizon,” said Ven. Ngawang Woebar.
He dipped his face in the river at Banspatan, and joked that monks don’t need to use soap because they have renounced vanity. A couple of hours later, Ven. Woeber was arrested. A former political prisoner, he is the president of Gu Chu Sum, one of the five organizations coordinating the historic March to Tibet, which started in Dharamsala on March 10th. Along with him, five other leaders of the march were also arrested on Tuesday and formally jailed yesterday afternoon in Haridwar Jail. The other detainees are Tsewang Rigzin, President of Tibetan Youth Congress; B Tsering, President of Tibetan Women’s Association, Chime Youngdroung, President of the National Democratic Party of Tibet, Tenzin Choeying, National Director of Students for a Free Tibet India, and Lobsang Yeshi, Coordinator of the March to Tibet. (more…)
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May 30, 2008
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PRESIDENTS OF FIVE TIBETAN NGOs TRANSFERRED TO JAIL IN HARDWAR
Nainital - At approximately 3:30 PM yesterday, the five Presidents of the leading Tibetan non-governmental organizations in India, Tsewang Rigzin, B Tsering, Ngawang Woebar, Chime Youngdrung, and Tenzin Choeying, and one coordinator of the March to Tibet, Lobsang Yeshi, were transferred from Haldwani Police Station to Roshanabad Jail in Hardwar. They are being held under Indian Penal Code Section 151 and CRPC sections 106 and 107, according to which the Presidents, as organizers of the March to Tibet, are being accused of jeopardizing the lives of the 300 marchers. (more…)
NEW DELHI (AFP) - Hundreds of Tibetan exiles vowed Thursday to press on with a trek home ahead of the Beijing Olympics despite Indian police detaining some of their leaders this week.
The marchers, who left the seat of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamshala on March 10, were now less than 200 kilometres from the Tibetan border, said Pema Dorjee, one of the 300 exiles making up the group. (more…)
The Tibetan People's Uprising Movement aims to revive the spirit of the Tibetan national uprising of 1959, and by engaging in nonviolent direct action, bring about an end to China's illegal occupation of Tibet. The March to Tibet was one initiative of this historic Movement.
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