BY Phuntsok Yangchen
DHARAMSHALA, January 30: The Chinese authorities have detained around ten Tibetans on Wednesday for participating in a protest against forced land grab outside a hotel where the third session of the 12th Sichuan Provincial People’s Congress Meeting is going on.
On January 28, around ten Tibetans staged a demonstration against forced land grab and demand protection of nomad land, raising slogans and carrying banners outside the hotel in Chengdu city, provincial capital of Sichuan.
“We became homeless after the land grab,” reads one of the banners.
Minutes into the protest, around fifty Chinese personnel arrived at the protest site and took away all the Tibetan protesters.
According to an eye-witness, “Around 11AM (local time) the nomads reached near the hotel carrying banners and started sloganeering. After a short while, around 40-50 Chinese security personnel arrived at the site, took the banners and carried away all the protesters in a vehicle.”
It is not known where the protesters were taken. The eye-witness further added that a large number of Chinese security personnel were deployed near the hotel.
