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Police break up pro-Tibet rally in Nepal
09 Aug 2008 15:06:14 GMT
 Source: Reuters
KATHMANDU, Aug 9 (Reuters) - Police broke up a pro-Tibet rally in Kathmandu on Saturday and detained more than 600 protesters who tried to storm a Chinese consular office, police and witnesses said.

The demonstrators, protesting against a Chinese crackdown in Tibet in March and shouting "free Tibet", were herded into police trucks, the witnesses said.

More than 20,000 Tibetans live in Nepal since they fled their country after an unsuccessful uprising against Chinese rule in 1959.

Nepal considers Tibet part of China and has vowed to crush any anti-Chinese activities by exiles.

On Friday, authorities detained more than 1,300 Tibetans who protested in Kathmandu as the Olympic Games opened in Beijing. (Reporting by Gopal Sharma; Editing by Krittivas Mukherjee and Andrew Dobbie) (For the latest Reuters news on Nepal see: http://in.reuters.com, for blogs see http://blogs.reuters.com/in)


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