INDIA: Demanding freedom for their homeland, Tibetan youths protest against the visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in India's New Delhi
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INDIA: Demanding freedom for their homeland, Tibetan youths protest against the visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in India's New Delhi
- Title: INDIA: Demanding freedom for their homeland, Tibetan youths protest against the visiting Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao in India's New Delhi
- Date: 17th December 2010
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (DECEMBER 16, 2010) (ANI - NO ACCESS BBC) TIBETAN YOUTH WALKING IN NEW DELHI PROTESTERS WAVING TIBETAN FLAGS AND SHOUTING SLOGANS PROTESTERS DISPERSING FROM THE SPOT POLICEMEN CHASING THE PROTESTERS POLICEMEN TAKING AWAY A PROTESTER POLICEMEN CATCHING HOLD OF A PROTESTER A PROTESTER SHOUTING 'WE WANT FREEDOM, WEN JIABAO' POLICEMEN CATCHING A WOMAN PROTESTER PROTESTER SHOUTING 'WE WANT FREEDOM, WEN JIABAO' WOMEN PROTESTER HOLDING EACH OTHER AND SHOUTING SLOGANS POLICEMEN PULLING THE PROTESTERS A PROTESTER SHOUTING 'WE WANT FREEDOM WEN JIABAO' PROTESTERS LYING ON THE ROAD POLICEMEN SURROUNDING A GROUP OF PROTESTING TIBETANS PROTESTERS SHOUTING 'WE WANT FREEDOM' IN THE POLICE VEHICLE TIRED FACE OF A PROTESTER POLICE VEHICLE LEAVING THE SPOT
- Embargoed: 1st January 2011 09:42
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- Location: India, India
- Country: India
- Topics: International Relations
- Reuters ID: LVA7UKVURG9MN57WB8IWZYEG1PKH
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- Story Text: Tibetan youths living in exile in India demonstrated on Thursday (December 16) against the visit of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao to India and demanded intervention over what they termed as violations of human rights in their homeland, Tibet.
Tibetans had been protesting to draw global attention to the issue after Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao landed in India's New Delhi for his three-day official visit.
Tibetan youths waved Tibetan flags, shouting 'Wen Jiabao we want freedom', as they marched through streets of the Indian capital.
However, police personnel dispersed the protest by arresting many demonstrators, and carrying them off by force.
Earlier in the day, policemen forcibly detained a group of Tibetan youths who tried to protest at the venue of the bilateral talks between Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his visiting Chinese counterpart.
One of the bones of contention between China and India is the fact that New Delhi granted asylum to Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama, who fled to India with thousands of his followers in 1959, following a failed uprising, and setting off a chain of events that led to the war between the two countries in 1962.
Beijing brands the Dalai Lama a separatist, and is worried that the Tibetan spiritual leader is using his base in the northern hill town of Dharamsala to keep separatist fires alive. - Copyright Holder: ANI (India)
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