Tibetan exiles held at protest
From Times Wire Reports
Nepalese police detained more than 500 Tibetan exiles decrying a crackdown in their homeland in a protest near the Chinese Embassy in Katmandu, police said.
Officers in blue camouflage uniforms chased down red-robed Buddhist monks and nuns and other Tibetans.
In neighboring India, runners carried the Olympic flame along a route through central New Delhi guarded by about 15,000 police officers who kept away Tibetan exiles and other anti-China protesters.
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