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Nepal arrests 560 Tibetan women
BBC ^ | 5-11-08 | unattributed

Posted on 05/11/2008 4:20:53 PM PDT by dynachrome

Nepalese police have arrested some 560 Tibetan women, including many Buddhist nuns, after breaking up demonstrations against China's crackdown in Tibet.

In the first example of all-women protests, three rallies in Kathmandu were quickly stopped by police.

It was the biggest round-up since Tibetan exiles began near daily demonstrations in March.

Protestors wearing black armbands wept and shouted "We want free Tibet" as they were dragged to police vans.

Police said those detained were being held in detention centres around the capital, and would be freed later.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; arrests; boycottchina; boycottolympics; china; nepal; olympics; tibet
Starting the pre-olympic festivities early, I see.
1 posted on 05/11/2008 4:20:54 PM PDT by dynachrome
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To: dynachrome

“Police said those detained were being held in detention centres around the capital, and would be freed later.”

Yep. That’ll happen. (God Keep Them!)


2 posted on 05/11/2008 4:25:42 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: dynachrome
Starting the pre-olympic festivities early, I see.

Looks like it to me too.

3 posted on 05/11/2008 5:04:13 PM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“Yep. That’ll happen. (God Keep Them!)”

I’ve seen how the police in Kathmandu treat arrestees and it ain’t pretty. They tenderize them before they haul them off to jail.


4 posted on 05/11/2008 5:34:15 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: TigersEye; yorkie

Read this yet? Prayers for the people of Tibet!


5 posted on 05/11/2008 6:43:51 PM PDT by pandoraou812 (Doesn't play well with others or share .....)
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To: dynachrome

Look’s like the new Maoist government of Nepal is doing the bidding of its Mother of all killers— China.


6 posted on 05/11/2008 6:52:42 PM PDT by lonestar67 (Its time to withdraw from the War on Bush-- your side is hopelessly lost in a quagmire.)
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To: pandoraou812; indcons; Army Air Corps; Virginia Ridgerunner; AmericanInTokyo

Nepal licks China’s jack boots ping.


7 posted on 05/12/2008 12:31:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (Berlin 1936. Olympics for murdering regimes. Beijing 2008.)
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