Almost coinciding with the start of the Olympic games in China, about 100 Tibetan activists clashed with police on Friday while trying to storm the Chinese Embassy
NEW DELHI: Almost coinciding with the start of the Olympic games in China, about 100 Tibetan activists clashed with police on Friday while trying to storm the Chinese Embassy during an anti-China protest here.
Nearly a hundred protesters carrying Tibetan flags and shouting anti-China slogans appeared near the embassy premises and rushed towards it, police said.
The protesters, who were clad in traditional Buddhist aprons and were wearing head bands in which slogans like "Free Tibet" and "Down with China" came in two buses at around 5.30 p.m, they said.
Swinging into immediate action, police detained the protesters and took them to the Chanakyapuri Police Station, Assistant Commissioner of Police Suman Nalwa said.
During the clash with police, some of protesters were injured and fell unconscious.
Additional police personnel were rushed to the Embassy soon in an attempt to ensure no further trouble.
Anticipating protests by Tibetans ahead of the Olympics, Delhi Police had stepped up security at the embassy by deploying extra personnel and erecting barricades near the mission office.
The extra vigil will be there till the sporting extravaganza gets over.
In a major security breach, Tibetan activists, demanding an end to alleged Chinese persecution in Tibet, had stormed the embassy in March this year ahead of the Olympic torch relay in Delhi.
The Tibetan Youth Congress had appealed to world leaders to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
Earlier in the day, scores of Tibetans, braving heavy rains, took out a march from Rajghat to Jantar Mantar in protest against the Olympics being held in Beijing.
Raising slogans against China and its leaders, the protesters marched from Mahatma Gandhi's memorial to Jantar Mantar, where the Tibetans-in-exile are holding protests since the outbreak of violence in Lhasa in March.
Tibetans across the country and from neighbouring countries such as Singapore and Myanmar also participated in the protest march.
Speakers at the protest march demanded the political parties in India to include the Tibetan issue in their manifestos and raise it in the Parliament "vigorously".
The protesters, some of whom were dressed as wounded Tibetans with the Olympic symbol hanging from their necks, also asked India to intervene and solve the Tibet issue.
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