(10 Mar 2025)
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New Delhi, India – 10 March 2025
1. Various of Tibetan Youth Congress members run around carrying posters, flags and banners near the Chinese embassy being as policemen try to detain them
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Name not given, protester:
“Due to the occupation of the Chinese in Tibet there’s lots of deaths happening in Tibet and they are all our brothers and sisters, we are over here, and we are not free. Though we are in independent country we are not free. Our brothers and sisters are in Tibet they are being harmed, they are being killed every day, self-immolations are happening every day.”
3. Various of Tibetan Youth Congress members shouting slogans, policemen trying to detain them
4. Various of protesters shouting slogan from inside a bus as it drives away
Dharamshala, India – 10 March 2025
5. Various of exiled Tibetans getting their faces painted with Tibetan national flag colors
6. Band playing
7. Penpa Tsering, President of the Central Tibetan Administration hoisting Tibetan flag
8. Various of Tibetans singing the national anthem
9. Tibetan carrying national flags, shouting slogans walk across the town
AP Video shot by Rishi Lekhi and Ashwini Bhatia
STORYLINE:
Dozens of Tibetan protesters clashed with police outside the Chinese embassy in New Delhi on Monday, March 10 to mark the 66th Tibetan National Uprising Day.
The protesters belonging to the Tibetan Youth Congress shouted anti-China slogans, carried banners, posters and Tibetan flags were forcibly pushed into vehicles, and taken away by policemen as they tried to enter the high-security complex.
In North India hill town Dharamshala, the seat of the exiled Tibetan government and home of the Dalai Lama, Penpa Tsering the President of the Central Tibetan Administration hoisted the Tibetan National Flag as the national anthems of Tibet and India were played in an official ceremony.
Tibetans carried a foot march across the town after the ceremony.
The 1959 independence uprising was quelled by the Chinese army forcing the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama and his followers into exile in India.
China claims Tibet has been part of its territory for centuries.
Tibetans say the Himalayan region was virtually independent until China occupied it in 1950.
AP video by Rishi lekhi and Ashwini Bhatia
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