Shillong, November 20 – Scores of Tibetan traders here protested Chinese President Hu Jintao’s visit to India Monday by downing their shutters.
“We strongly oppose the Chinese president’s visit to India as he was the man responsible for a military assault on peaceful demonstrators in Tibet in 1989 when he was the chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region,” a leader of the Regional Tibetan Youth Congress told IANS.
There are about 500 Tibetans living in exile here with most of them running shops and restaurants.
The entire Tibetan community closed their businesses beginning 9 a.m. for three hours. The protestors also held a silent prayer in a street corner and distributed leaflets listing the alleged persecution of Tibetans by Chinese authorities.
Hu arrives in New Delhi Monday on a four-day visit to the country.
