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Tibetans continue protests against China in Nepal

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Tibetan protesters lie on the road during a protest near the Chinese consulate office in Kathmandu 28 August 2008. Tibetans in Nepal were trying to storm the office to protest the Chinese actions in Tibet.Reuters/Shruti Shrestha/Nepal

Police official Ramesh Thapa said more than 120 Tibetans were detained because they were demonstrating in an areas where protests are prohibited.

The Tibetans gathered outside the Chinese Embassy visa office in Kathmandu shouting slogans against China.

“We want a free Tibet. Tibet belongs to Tibetans,” they chanted before being taken away to detention centers.

Tibetan exiles in Nepal have been staging frequent protests to show their support for the unrest that erupted in Tibet’s capital in March.

Arrested Tibetan protesters in Kathmandu are generally freed the same day.

The March protests in Lhasa were among the biggest in almost 50 years of Chinese rule.

Many Tibetans insist they were an independent nation before communist troops invaded in 1950, while Beijing says the Himalayan region has been part of its territory for centuries.

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