04 June 2008
Marchers arrested
(AP, TibetInfoNet) Indian police have deported between 250 and 265 Tibetan exiles marching to Tibet to protest against Chinese rule from Berinag in the Uttarkand state (about 180km from India's border with the TAR) to Ponta Sahib in the neighbouring Himachal Pradesh where they began their march nearly three months ago from Dharamsala. Between 100 and 150 marchers together with one of the march's leader, Tenzin Tsundue, who escaped arrest, and the heads of the organisations leading the march, who were released from detention in Haridwar, have reformed in the town of Devinagar, 100 km away from the Dharchu pass, from which they are expected to continue their march. Their declared intention is to reach Tibet to coincide with the start of the Beijing Olympics in August.