NEPAL – Police on Friday arrested over a hundred pro-Tibet protestors outside the Chinese embassy in Kathmandu.
Demostrators shouted "China liars" and "We want a free Tibet," according to reporters at the scene.
Tibetans living in Nepal, some of them born here, have been protesting since the riots in the Tibetan capital, Lhasa in early March 2008.
These protests have more often than not been broken up by Nepal’s Armed Police Force (APF).
The current Nepalese government has been unflinching in it’s support for it’s large northern neighbour, helping the Chinese government to prevent protests near or on Mount Everest as a special Chinese Olympic Torch makes it’s way to the summit of the famous peak – which staddles the border of Tibet and Nepal – as part of the Olympic Torch relay.
The relay – first invented by the Nazis in the 1930s – has courted controversy as it went around the world to promote the Beijing games.
Meeting the current PM, Girija Prasad Koirala, US Ambassador to Nepal, Nancy Powell expressed her concerns about treatment of Tibetan protestors in Nepal.
"Ambassador (Nancy) Powell .. expressed official US concern about the treatment of Tibetans by Nepali authorities," the embassy said in a statement.
Ms Powell "urged the prime minister to ensure that the right to peaceful protest was maintained and that the human rights of Tibetans in Nepal are respected."
Despite the arrests, it is expected that the protests are likely to continue.
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