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Article: Nepal s Tibetans squeezed as China flexes muscles.
- Article from:
- Times of Oman (Muscat, Oman)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2009
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KATHMANDU: As Beijing marked the 60th anniversary of Communist rule last week, police in Nepal quietly rounded up dozens of Tibetan exiles they said were suspected of planning to hold anti-China protests here.
The pre-emptive arrests in early morning raids across the capital Kathmandu were the latest sign of an increasingly hardline approach by Nepalese authorities to the country s Tibetan population.
Nepal is home to around 20,000 exiled Tibetans, who began arriving in large numbers in 1959 after their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled Tibet following a failed uprising against the Chinese.
Those who arrived before 1990 were given permission ...