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Over 500 Tibetan women detained in Nepal

Sunday 11 May 2008

Nepalese police detained over 500 Tibetan women in Kathmandu following the first all-women demonstration against Chinese rule in Tibet. Nepal has been cracking down on protests against China, one of its key trading partners.

Sunday 11 May 2008

By Reuters

Nepali police detained 562 Tibetan women at an anti-China rally in Kathmandu on Sunday, the first all-women protest against Chinese rule in their homeland, officials said.

Some shouted "We want free Tibet" while others wept as they were dragged along the road to police vans and trucks and driven to detention centres. Many were wearing black armbands and had their mouths gagged with cloths.

Nepal considers Tibet part of China, a key donor and trade partner, and has been cracking down on protests by the exiled Tibetans against Beijing.

Police said the protesters would be freed later.

Exiled Tibetans have been protesting regularly ever since deadly riots broke out in the Tibetan capital Lhasa in March, followed by demonstrations in other Tibetan areas of China.

Many Tibetans are furious over the crackdown against protesters in Tibet and resent China's decades-old rule of the Himalayan region.

The Lhasa riot broke out after days of protests centred on the anniversary of the failed 1959 Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule.

More than 20,000 Tibetans have been living in Nepal since fleeing their Himalayan homeland after the failed uprising. "We are not against Nepal. Our protests are against China. So why are they arresting us?" asked a 70-year-old protester who gave her name as Chinjhoke, tears rolling down her face.

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Nepalese crack down on Tibetan wpmen protesters

By Kenneth T. Tellis -

The very fact that Nepal has cracked down on anti Chinese Tibetan Women protesters, leaves open an old issue that was never resolved. That being the attempt of Indian Prime Minister's attempt to annex Nepal in January 1962, by sending Indian-Nepalese trained insurgents to foment trouble and overthrow the Nepalese government by a coup d'etat. Now that the present government of the Nepalese Republic is on good terms with Peoples China, India will never again threaten the sovereignty of Nepal. There are now roads from China directly linked to Nepal. But India should not ever again play with the idea that it can annex Nepal, like it did with Sikkim in 1876.

When considering China's progress with that of India, one sees China a thousand years ahead of India that is still steeped in the Caste System which holds it back from reaching its true potential. Thus, one look at China tell you everything. But one look at the India that got its independence from Britain in August 1947 tell you that it has not advanced from that period in her history. All one can see in India's big cities is the CHAWL to CHAWL misery of India's low Caste masses yearning for the day when they will be accepted as equals in a MODERN SOCIETY. But that will not happen in a country where slavery in all its many forms still exists to this very day.