" A bas la Chine, A bas la Chine" avec ces slogans et des drapeaux du Tibet, quatre Tibétains ont enfreint l'interdiction de rejoindre Hyderabad House alors même que se tenait la rencontre sino-indienne entre le Président Hu Jintao et le Premier Ministre Indien Manmohan Singh. Tous les Tibétains réunis lançaient aussi des slogans anti-chinois.
Les forces de sécurité indiennes sévèrement critiquées par la Chine, déclarent avoir été complètement surprises par ces quatre manifestants qui tentaient d'approcher le bâtiment afin de l'orner de banderolles. Ils ont été battus et projetés au sol sous les coups portés pour faire taire les slogans tandis que les troupes fédérales d'Action Rapide déployaient un cordon de sécurité supplémentaire.
Jiang Yu porte-parole du ministre des Affaires étrangères chinois critiquait fermement lesprotestions des Tibétains affirmant que le but était de saboter les relations entre les deux géants asiatiques.
La police indienne était également surprise par plusieurs dizaines de manifestants qui se sont rués vers
India Gate World War II Memorial, le Mémorial de la seconde Guerre mondiale construit par les Britanniques, situé à moins d'un kilomètre du lieu du Congrès.
Pendant le même temps, plus de mille Tibétains protestaient et lançaient force slogans anti-chinois à Dharamsala, siège du Gouvernement tibétain en exil.
Le principal quotidien indien de langue anglaise Times of India, disait mardi que les forces de sécurité indiennes agissaient de façon anti-démocratique en gardant hors de vue les protestataires Tibétains durant cette visite.
"New Delhi a officiellement accepté l'occupation du Tibet par la Chine, mais il n'y a aucune matière à demander à toutes les catégories de la société civile de suivre cette prise de position."précise le quotidien dans son éditorial.
Ajoutons que le cortège officiel avait tôt le matin été accueilli par plusieurs manifestants dont plusieurs sont maintenant ... sous les verrous...

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Tibetans breach security to reach site of Sino-Indian talks
AFP[Tuesday, November 21, 2006 18:10]
By Pratap Chakravarty


A policeman struggles with a Tibetan protester after arresting him for shouting anti-Chinese slogans outside Hyderabad House, the venue of a meeting between Chinese President Hu Jintao and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, as the meeting was in progress in New Delhi, India, Tuesday, Nov. (AP)
NEW DELHI - Police arrested four flag-draped Tibetan activists in New Delhi after they tried to storm a venue for talks between Indian and Chinese leaders, in one of several protests that drew a sharp rebuke from Beijing.

The four protesters managed to breach heavy security outside the ornate Hyderabad House, as Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Chinese President Hu Jintao held talks.

"China! Down, down," screamed a protester with 'Free Tibet' painted on his bare chest.

Armed officers beat the four to the ground and using bare hands tried to muffle their anti-Chinese slogans as federal Rapid Action Force troops placed another security cordon around the centre.

"They took us by complete surprise," a senior officer said on a street leading to Hyderabad House.

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu severely criticised the Tibetan protests, saying they were designed to sabotage relations between the Asian giants.

"We believe they are carried out by the Dalai Lama's faction to sensationalise issues and to ruin China-India relations," Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular press conference.

Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, has said he no longer seeks independence for the Himalayan outpost, but wants autonomy under Chinese rule.

More than 1,000 slogan-shouting Tibetans staged protests in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, which the Dalai Lama chose as his headquarters after he fled Tibet in 1959 when Beijing crushed an uprising.

Activists of the Tibetan Youth Congress also surprised the police when dozens of them reached the British-built India Gate World War II memorial less than a kilometre (less than a mile) from Hyderabad House.

While scores of maroon-robed Buddhist monks also rallied in New Delhi to protest Hu's visit, but they were bundled away in police trucks, witnesses said.

The monks screamed anti-Chinese slogans, burned an effigy of Hu and unfurled the Tibetan flag and chanted their national anthem before the police could detain them, the witnesses said.

The country's leading English-language daily, the Times of India, said Tuesday that the attempt by Indian security forces to keep Tibetan protesters out-of-sight during the Hu visit was undemocratic.

"New Delhi has officially accepted China's occupation of Tibet, but it has no business to demand that all sections of civil society toe the line," the newspaper said in an editorial.

Hu and Singh, meanwhile, inked 13 accords and agreed to work harder to resolve a boundary dispute that took India and China to war in 1962, but did not discuss the vexed presence of the Tibetan spiritual leader in India, attending diplomats said.

"The Tibetan issue did not come up during the talks in Hydarabad House," a Chinese diplomat told AFP.