| Phayul[Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:11] |
By Chime Tenzing  The Festival and award ceremony was held from 19 to 21 March in the Italian town of Duino and was attended by guests and participants from 15 different countries. The best poems and the poetry sessions would be compiled into books and DVDs by September and the winning team will reunite in Italy during the launch. Prof. Gabriella Valera Gruber, President of the Association Poesia e Solidarietà (Poetry and Solidarity) Trieste www.poesiaesolidarieta.it, says, “This poetry Competition is the most important international competition in the world for young people. We received poems from 90 countries and evaluated them in their original languages. The Palden's poem has been selected among 1000 poems.” Poetry and Solidarity Association which organized the Poetry Festival was established on July 5, 2006. Every year they organize international poetry festivals to select the best budding poets from among different nations around the globe. The past winning poems are published on its website www.castellodiduinopoesia.it Palden Gyal was born in Tibet and later studied at the Tibetan Children’s Village school at Dharamsala. After completing his matriculation he had received a full scholarship to pursue International Baccalaureate Diploma (IB) at Red Cross Nordic United World College in Norway which is jointly financed by the governments of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finaland and Iceland. Palden blogs at www.paldengyal.co.nr |
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Tibetan Student Wins International Poetry Prize In Italy
Tibetan Student Wins International Poetry Prize In Italy
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Beijing trying to demonize Dalai Lama'
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Tibet’s Rivers Strangled by Dams
Tibet’s Rivers Strangled by Dams
| Epoch Times[Monday, March 22, 2010 13:43] |
By James Burke  "If you want to kill a river, building dams is the best way to do it," says Canadian documentary maker Michael Buckley. (Liu Jin/AFP/Getty Images) “I have been back and forth to Tibet a number of times and I never noticed the dams were there—but they are hidden, they are down gorges that you cannot see from the road,” Buckley told press after the screening his documentary film “Meltdown in Tibet,” in Bangkok. Having teamed up with a group of tourists kayaking through Tibetan rivers in 2005, Buckley came across newly constructed dams built to divert water and hydro energy to China. “So the only people [Westerners] who know about them are kayakers because they have come across them—they go down the river and all of a sudden there is a huge dam,” he said. “If you want to kill a river, building dams is the best way to do it,” said Buckley. Among the rivers originating from Tibet that he investigated for his 40 minute documentary was the Salween River, which also flows through China, Burma, and Thailand and empties into the Andaman Sea. “The river is known as Gyalmo Ngulchu in Tibetan— roughly translating as “The Queen of Silver Water,” explained the film’s narration. “Despite widespread protest from within China and from neighboring countries in Asia, Chinese engineers are forging ahead with plans for a cascade of 13 large dams on the Salween. Several dams are already under construction—one the height of a 60-story building.” Buckley also investigated a river known to the Tibetans as the Dri Chu, or Yak River, which becomes the Yangtze—one of China’s most famous rivers—a river which, along with the Yellow River, now fails to reach the sea. “In the upper reaches of the Yangtse River—at the edges of the Tibetan plateau—there are three more large dams under construction, and five more in the planning stages,” said his film. Altogether his research found that 31 large dams are scheduled to be built in the Three Parallel Rivers region, which includes the Upper Yangtze, Upper Mekong, and Salween rivers. Mao’s Dictum Buckley made the point that 60 percent of the Chinese communist leadership (including current head Hu Jintao) have an engineering background and many have vested interests in damming companies and the financing of international damming projects.  A 2006 photo of a Tibetan working with her yaks to plough a field. The Tibetan nomads would cultivate their autumn field area which sits at an altitude of 3,800 meters. However the Chinese communist authorities ruling Tibet have decreed that all Tibetan nomads be moved off the grasslands and permanently resettled in relocation centers. Beijing has set a deadline of 2011 to have this done by. (China Photos/Getty Images) “In the 1950s, Mao’s dictum was that humans can conquer nature and he did some very bizarre projects, which tried to prove that you could take on nature and win and in a lot of cases they lost,” Buckley said. “The Mao dictum is still around today—that the Chinese can take on nature and win. That has been permeating the Chinese mentality for the last 50 years.” China’s own river system, he said, has been so devastated by uncontrolled industrialization that it has resulted in 70 percent of the nation’s water supply being undrinkable and unable to support aquatic life. “The rivers are dead. … They are not trying to fix their rivers. Their solutions are ‘Let’s take the water from Tibet’,” he said. The diversion of water from the Tibetan highlands to parts of northern China, Buckley discovered, is done via a vast network of concrete conduits and there are plans to do more. “China’s grand pipe-dream is to divert abundant water from the Tibetan highlands to reach water-starved cities of the north and west of China, which have around 300 million people,” stated his film. “A diversion project of this scale enters a realm beyond anything ever attempted in water engineering.” The electricity produced via the hydro dams in Tibet he added is not for Tibetans but for Chinese industry. Downstream The Dza Chu, or Mekong River, begins its life in the mountains of Tibet and it becomes, as his film describes, “a roaring torrent as it swirls through deep gorges, dropping an astonishing 4,500 meters [14,800 feet] in elevation through Tibet and China, over a distance of 1,800 km [1,118 miles]—before turning tamer in Laos.” Chinese damming efforts on the Upper Mekong, Buckley said have dramatically altered the flow of the river affecting those nations further downstream—Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Environmental groups outside of China have been vocal in blaming four Chinese mega dams in the Upper Mekong for being the main reason why the famous river’s level has dropped to a 50-year low. The most recent of these dams to come into operation—the Xiaowan Dam—is the second largest of China’s hydroelectric power station after the Three Gorges Dam. Beijing has soundly rejected the claims and blames drought for the water level drop, and has denied outside parties from accessing its records on how much water the damn holds. Tibetan Nomads While much of Buckley’s documentary focuses on the affects of Chinese dam-building, it was also concerned about the plight of the Tibetan nomads. “I am doing this to counter the propaganda view that ‘they [the Chinese Communist Party[ are into conservation’, which is ludicrous. They say they are moving the nomads off the grasslands because they want to conserve the grasslands and they are getting away with it,” Buckley said. A lot these areas, which were inhabited by Tibetan nomads and their herds of yaks, have been declared national parks by Chinese authorities, he stated. “It is just a cover. They don’t want people living there. The nomads are being taken off their land so as to make way for hydro projects and mining ventures,” he said. Rivers, like other natural features such as lakes and mountains, are considered sacred by the Tibetan people his documentary explained. “Socialist paradise TV programs harp on how ‘life of the nomads has been greatly improved’ and how the rail link will greatly benefit the lives of Tibetans. [On TV] there were singing nomads coming out right, left, and centre but the nomads are not singing, they are not happy, they are in concrete [relocation] camps,” he said. “The nomads are the forgotten people of Tibet. No one is standing up for them, they are being wiped out and they will just disappear and no one is doing anything to stop that so it is a tragic situation.” Since filming in 2005, he said the situation inside Tibet has gotten worse. He said that most of those involved in the film did want not their identities revealed for fear of repercussions from Chinese authorities. More information about the documentary is available at: www.meltdownintibet.com |
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Firings Over School Protests
| RFA[Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:57] |
Teachers lose their jobs following Tibetan student demonstrations against Chinese rule.  The gates of the Tibetan Middle School in Machu county, shown in an undated photo. Photo courtesy - Dolkar Kyab Students at the school remain confined to school grounds, sources said. “The school is surrounded by armed security forces, and all the students are locked inside the campus,” a Tibetan resident of the area said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “They are not allowed to move in and out. Tension is extremely high in the Machu county area,” the man said. The man’s account could not be independently confirmed, and a Machu [in Chinese, Maqu] county government official, reached for comment, denied knowledge of the events before hanging up. Dozens of students at the Tibetan Middle School in Machu staged a protest March 14 on the second anniversary of a region-wide uprising against Chinese rule in Tibetan-populated areas of western China. “[They] were joined by 500 to 600 other Tibetans,” a local resident said. “They were shouting against their lack of freedom, and were calling for Tibetan independence,” the source said. Teachers fired Following the protest, the school’s headmaster, Kyabchen Dedrol, and two assistants—Do Re and another man, unnamed—were dismissed from their jobs, a source said. “[The Chinese authorities] also relieved Sonam Tse, head of the Machu Public Security Office, of his title. It is feared that another seven or eight teachers from the Machu Tibetan Middle School will also lose their jobs,” the man said. The head of the Machu Education Department, with direct responsibility for the middle school, has been allowed to keep his job, though, a source in Machu said. “Local Tibetans suspect that he was spared because of his Han ethnicity,” the source said. Academic instruction at the Machu Tibetan Middle School will be suspended for a month so that the students detained there can be “given political re-education,” Dolkar Kyab, a former Machu resident now living in Dharamsala, India, said, citing sources in the area. Other protests On March 16, students at a second school, Kanlho Tibetan Middle School No. 3, also protested, but were stopped from leaving school grounds by school security officials and teachers. Students at another school, the Kanlho Prefecture Middle School, managed to leave school grounds, though, and gathered in the street, a resident of Sangchu [in Chinese, Xiahe] county in Gansu province said, also on condition of anonymity. “Police and armed PAP [People’s Armed Police] surrounded the students and forced them back into the school compound. About 20 students were detained and were later released after being interrogated,” the source said. Students and teachers at the school are still being questioned, he said, adding, “The increased presence of Chinese forces is causing tension and fear in the area.” Meanwhile, at Ditsa monastery in Malho [in Chinese, Huangnan] prefecture in Qinghai province, posters were put up on March 14 calling for freedom for Tibet and for the long life of Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama. “Soon after the posters appeared, local police and the PAP arrived in the area, tightened security, and took away two monks—Jamyang, 19, and Yeshe, 20,” a local resident said, confirming an account from another source with contacts in the region. The monks’ teacher, Tulku Woeser, and three of his attendants were also detained, he said. “Tulku Woeser was released after three days of detention and interrogation,” the source added. “He was released because of his bad health.” |
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
China tightens security ahead of Tibet anniversary
| DPA[Tuesday, March 09, 2010 23:17] |
Beijing - China has tightened security in its Tibet Autonomous Region ahead of Wednesday's anniversary of a Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule, reports said. "In recent days, there are police officers on the street 24 hours and the police will check everyone from outside Tibet," a receptionist at the Xueyu Hotel in the regional capital Lhasa told the German Press Agency dpa by telephone. "If you want to travel here, you'd better come after March," he said. March 10 marks the 51st anniversary of an unsuccessful Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule. It is also the second anniversary of a memorial protest that escalated into ethnic violence and rioting in Lhasa. The official Xinhua news agency quoted Ma Jun, Lhasa's deputy police chief, as saying on Tuesday that extra police patrols were deployed ahead of the anniversary to "prevent crime and maintain social stability." The Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet quoted sources in Nepal as saying the main border crossing between Tibet and Nepal was "effectively closed in the lead-up to the anniversary." Flights between Kathmandu and Lhasa were suspended from Friday. Nepalese travel agents said tourists may not be able to enter the Tibet Autonomous Region from Kathmandu until "several days after March 10," the group reported. A Chinese government website said police in Lhasa had questioned 435 criminal suspects during a "Strike Hard" campaign in the city in late February and early March. The report did not say if any of those questioned were suspected of involvement in political activities, but it said police detained seven people on suspicion of involvement apparently non-political criminal activities. As part of the crackdown, more than 1,500 police and security guards checked 4,115 rented rooms in the city and questioned 7,374 migrants on the evening of March 2, the regional government reported on its website www.tibet.gov.cn. Police and firemen also checked 178 hotels, 21 internet cafes, dozens of entertainment centres, several banks, petrol stations and other buildings in Lhasa, the report said. Authorities confiscated 348 firearms and 6,225 bullets in the operation, it said without giving details. The India-based Tibetan Centre for Human Rights and Democracy said authorities had restricted the movement of many monks at three of Lhasa's biggest monasteries. The city government set up a "Lhasa Neighbourhood Committee" of volunteers charged with helping to "maintain social order" during the anniversary, the centre reported. The 2008 protests in Lhasa grew into widespread demonstrations against Chinese rule in many Tibetan areas of China over the following weeks. The government said clashes in Lhasa left 18 people dead and hundreds injured, while Tibetan exile groups put the death toll as high as 200 and said many protestors were shot dead by police. Since the protests, the government has turned away journalists from Tibetan areas, limited access by foreign tourists and suspended communications in some places. In January, leaders of China's ruling Communist Party outlined a 10-year economic and social development plan for Tibetan areas, which critics say will only consolidate Chinese control. |
Friday, July 31, 2009
The Will to Survive: One Man's Harrowing Escape from Tibet
The Will to Survive: One Man's Harrowing Escape from Tibet
| huffingtonpost[Friday, July 31, 2009 10:58] |
by Rebecca Novick As a child growing up in a remote village in the mountainous region of Kham, Tsewang Dhondup loved to listen to the heroic fables recounted by the local elders. But Tsewang's own story is the stuff of legend, and might well end up woven into local lore and marveled at by Tibetan boys for generations to come. Everything about him confirms the reputation of the Khampas, as the people from his area are called, renowned for their swash-buckling vigor and warrior spirit. Sturdily built with large expressive eyes, a generous smile and mass of thick black hair, the 39-year-old Tsewang seems full of life in his stark room at the Tibetan refugee center in Dharamsala, India. The name Tsewang, means 'longevity,' but from his own account, it is incredible that he is still alive.  Tsewang (front) and Lobsang Photo: Lhakpa Kyizom "The feeling was that this was the time -- that Tibetans can't live like this anymore and we have to do something. We might lose our lives, but at least our death will have meaning. I heard people say that the Tibetan situation is like a patient in agonizing pain. If he can't recover, it's better to die sooner than later." The violence perpetrated by a few Tibetans against Chinese citizens was repeatedly played on state television while the city's massive and largely non-violent protests were covered only in the international press. Tsewang claims that he didn't hold any particular resentment towards the average Han Chinese. "Some Chinese people told me that back in their hometowns, they can't earn enough to survive no matter how hard they work. They came to Tibet to try to make a better life for themselves. I understand this." But his feeling towards the Chinese authorities -- particularly the government -- was an entirely different matter. Tsewang's own grandfather had been jailed for eight months at the age of 71 just for possessing a photograph of the Dalai Lama. It's this kind of treatment, says Tsewang, that inspired the 2008 protests. "Everyone knows the risks they take when they protest. But we feel like we're on a sinking ship. We're going to drown anyway, so it's better to just jump into the water." Through television broadcasts of Voice of America that he watched in secret with his family, Tsewang heard the Dalai Lama's teachings on non-violence. This is the reason there were so few Chinese casualties during the demonstrations that swept across the Tibetan plateau in 2008, he says. "He is like the sun for us. We can't disobey him no matter how badly the Chinese treat us. It's not because we Tibetans are weak that we don't resort to violence. We put ourselves in a very vulnerable situation by demonstrating the way we do." It was through Voice of America that Tsewang learned about the Dalai Lama's Middle Way approach that aims for "genuine autonomy" rather than independence. "To be honest, what I want is independence," he says. "But I think it's important for Tibetans to follow whatever His Holiness the Dalai Lama says." On Monday, March 24th, Tsewang was among over one hundred volunteers working on a hillside laying a water pipeline to Jogri [Chogri] Monastery below. At around four in the afternoon, they heard some commotion from the town of Trehor, about 2 kilometers away. Tsewang had been waiting for the demonstrations to hit his hometown, and he knew that this was it. From where they were standing, he could make out a number of maroon robes, and determined correctly that the protest was being led by nuns from the nearby Ngangong Nunnery. (The 200 Ngangong nuns had been joined by about 50 nuns from Khasum Nunnery.) Then Tsewang heard gunfire. Without exchanging a word, everyone dropped their tools and ran down to the monastery where they had parked their motorbikes. All of them, including the monks, rushed in the direction of the town. Those who didn't have transport simply ran as fast as they could. "Tibetans have a lot of respect for monks and nuns. When we heard the shots, we all felt a strong urge to go and protect them. I knew I might end up in jail for the rest of my life or get shot myself, but I didn't hesitate." Tibetans in Kardze prefecture possess a keen sense of national identity along with a fierce loyalty to the Dalai Lama. The region is referred to by Beijing as "the neck of Tibet". If you can get your hands around Kardze, they say, you can control the entire plateau. Tsewang says that the Tibetans in this area that borders China proper, feel a responsibility to hold the line of Tibetan pride for the rest of the nation. Months after protests had died down elsewhere, people were still shouting outside government offices in Kardze. "I felt so inspired by the way the people reacted," says Tsewang. " I realized that the pain I had held in my heart all this time and my hatred of the Chinese government was shared by everyone around me." Tsewang rode into Trehor in a convoy of over a hundred motorbikes. The town was packed with motorbikes. There was nowhere to park, so Tsewang simply left his in the street and ran in the direction of the cries of " Tibet belongs to Tibetans!" and "Let the Dalai Lama return to Tibet!" He slipped into the crowd of about 300 and marched with them down the main street. No one carried Tibetan flags or banners. All the people had to wave were their fists. The demonstration had been joined by people of all ages, young and old. Tsewang saw children as young as six. They were surrounded by about 200 People's Armed Police, some of whom were randomly hauling people out of the crowd and beating them with iron rods. Every time they saw this, Tsewang and others would rush over and forcefully drag the demonstrator away from the clutches of the police and back into the safety of the throng. This crude strategy proved surprisingly effective. "The police weren't able to arrest a single person," Tsewang proudly recalls. But it was difficult for him to see unarmed people being beaten indiscriminately. "I was very close to a couple of Chinese soldiers. It would have been very easy for me to kill them." It was his devotion to the Dalai Lama that held him back. "It's not that I don't have the courage to fight," he is quick to point out. "But I felt restrained by His Holiness' words." The people spontaneously headed towards the police station--a symbol of their discontent. By the time they got there, the police had begun resorting to more extreme measures to make their point. Along with tear gas, about five policemen were firing live ammunition from the station roof into the crowd. More police were shooting from behind a large iron gate. Tsewang says that about five people were injured (later reports put the number closer to ten). None of them sought professional medical help for fear of arrest, but instead would return to their homes to receive whatever treatment they could. When the firing began, a gap formed in the crowd as those directly outside the gate ran for their lives--all except a 21-year-old monk named Kunga, one of the 200 monks from Chokri Monastery who had joined the demonstration. Kunga found himself caught in the open, right in front of the police gate. He was immediately shot and slumped to the ground. Tsewang rushed to help him. "There is a Tibetan saying, when a rabbit is picked up by a vulture it's useless for the rabbit to petition the sky. But like the rabbit, I found myself calling out in my mind for the blessing of His Holiness the Dalai Lama." Another man appeared and together they began to carry the monk away. Tsewang felt a searing pain in his left side and knew he'd been shot. He took only two steps before he was hit by another bullet in his left elbow. "Blood was rushing out of my arm like a water fountain and I began to feel dizzy." Just before he lost consciousness, Tsewang managed to call out, "Someone help this monk!" Kunga later died from his wounds. It was at this point that Tsewang's friend and distant relative, Lobsang Thupten, appeared on his motorbike, grabbed Tsewang, and pulled him onto the seat between himself and another protester. The three men sped out of town as fast as they could, pursued by a police vehicle. Tsewang was drifting in and out of consciousness. Just before the turn off to their village, he and Lobsang observed an odd phenomenon. "You won't believe me," says Tsewang, "but it was as if time sped up. It became very dark all of a sudden. We continued going straight, but the police weren't able to see us any more and they took the road towards my village." The men stopped at another village further on and hid Tsewang in a prayer room. Someone did their best to bandage his wounds while others constructed a makeshift gurney out of bamboo poles and a blanket. Four men volunteered to carry Tsewang up into the mountains. The morning after the protest, the authorities launched a door-to-door search for Tsewang's body. Eyewitnesses had assumed that he'd been killed and international human rights groups were reporting his death around the world. The men with Tsewang decided only to travel by night but they had no flashlight and they were walking in difficult terrain. "They carried me for six nights straight. Every time they stumbled, the pain was excruciating, but they were incredibly careful," Tsewang recalls. For the next fourteen months, the group hid in mountain caves, moving their camp every month as a security measure. Every ten days, one of them would go down to their village and return after another ten days with fresh supplies. This routine made it was less likely that the absence of any one of them would come to the attention of the authorities. Having learned about Tsewang's condition, the local people had begun making donations of medicine, including antibiotics. But with no proper medical attention, after two months, Tsewang's wounds began to rot and became infested with maggots. Lobsang used a razor to cut off the dead skin. The process was sheer agony for Tsewang. "It was unbearable. I took a stick and put it in my mouth and just bit down as hard as I could." For the first six months, Tsewang sat in an upright position and couldn't move a single part of his body. He lost all the hair where the back of his head rubbed against the rock. After eight months, he was still only able to move his head. He was completely dependent on his friends for everything. It was now November. The freezing temperatures and heavy snow made the trip down and up the mountains even tougher. The others were returning with frostbite, and he worried about the risks to their health and security that they were taking on his behalf. Tsewang began to think that it would perhaps be better for him to die than to continue putting his friends in danger. "I began to refuse food and medicine," he says. "But they kept encouraging me to keep up my resolve to live." After ten months, Tsewang could take a few steps with two people supporting him. Only after a whole year had passed was he able to walk unassisted. Now that he was less critical, three of the others would go down together, leaving only one person behind to look after him. It was when he was alone with Lobsang that Tsewang posed the question that had been playing on his mind. "I had decided that I needed to tell the world about the sufferings of the Tibetan people. I asked him if he would help me get to India. I knew I couldn't make it without him." The plan was to travel to Lhasa to find a guide who could take them over the Himalayan border into Nepal. Lobsang knew that the chances of making it even as far as Lhasa were slim. Tsewang and Lobsang's photo was on a wanted list that was posted at every checkpoint between them and the capital and a bounty on their heads. And, like Tsewang, Lobsang was married with two children. It was possible that he would never see his family again. But still he agreed to go. "Tsewang needed to let the world know his story. I was being useful to the Tibetan people by going with him." Tsewang had somehow managed to survive for fourteen months,16,000 feet up in the mountains, with untreated bullet wounds, in extreme pain, living only on barley flour, butter and tea. "Sometimes it's hard for me to believe that I lived through it all. I survived through sheer will power and the collective courage and determination of those who cared for me." Now he and the man whom he would come to call 'brother' beat the odds once again and made it safely to Lhasa after a ten-day journey by motorbike. But at this part of his story, the usually animated Tsewang, falls silent. He avoids recounting any specifics so as to protect those who helped him along the way. "All I can tell you is that these people are incredibly brave and generous. I will always be grateful to them." But most of all, he is grateful to Lobsang. The bond between them is palpable. "We have become so close. He is like my second eye." Even today, Tsewang's home region is causing headaches for the authorities. Radio Free Asia reports that on July 17, 2009, a man named Yonten Gyatso--another native of Kardze--staged a lone protest in a sports stadium in the town of Chamdo. "He ran a complete circuit of the stadium while displaying fliers," said a source. "The people who were gathered there cheered him on... In the fliers, the man gave his name and called on others to protest for the cause of Tibet." Yonten eluded the police for four days until his eventual arrest on July 21st. Since the two men arrived in India in May 2009, Tsewang and Lobsang have been trying to get their story out. Tsewang's dream is to testify before the United Nations. "I feel obligated to speak out for those who can't." Does he think that the Tibetan people will rise up again like they did in 2008? "If the Chinese government doesn't listen to His Holiness the Dalai Lama and don't give Tibetans basic human rights, then yes, it will definitely happen again." And when the Dalai Lama dies? There is no doubt in his mind that the gloves are off. Translation by Pema Namgyal. Rebecca Novick is the founding producer of The Tibet Connection radio program. |
Monday, July 6, 2009
Advertisement Unmistaken Child Nepal Tibetans mark Dalai Lama's birthday
Nepal is home to about 20,000 exiled Tibetans
More than 1,000 Tibetan exiles took part in the celebration, held under a heavy police presence at a huge Buddhist stupa on the outskirts of Kathmandu, an AFP photographer said.
Nepal is home to about 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.
On Sunday, Nepal's home ministry warned it would not allow any activities aimed at "undermining the friendship between the two countries."
"Nepal desires to maintain equal and friendly relations with both its neighbours," the ministry said in a statement released ahead of the Dalai Lama's birthday.
"It is also committed not to let its territory be used against any friendly country."
Sandwiched between India and China, Nepal has upheld Beijing's "one China" policy -- that Tibet is an integral part of China.
It has repeatedly said it will not tolerate anti-China demonstrations as it seeks to preserve friendly ties with its northern neighbour.
Last month, Nepalese police arrested 34 Tibetan exiles as they tried to stage a demonstration near the Chinese border.
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