New Delhi: Around a dozen Tibetan activists were rounded up on Thursday, moments after they tried to storm Taj Palace Hotel where the BRICS summit was being held. Protesters smashed police barricades barely 800 metres from the summit venue. Carrying flags and placards, activists managed to break the security cordon, but were dragged away by police.
Tibetans were protesting against the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao to India. The crackdown continued throughout the city. There was high drama at IGI airport after the Tibetan Youth Congress president was bundled out, minutes after touchdown.But it was outside Taj Palace Hotel where the protests were raucous. Around 12.30pm, Tibetan activists unfurled banners and rushed towards Taj Palace Hotel from the Satya Niketan footbridge. Some others joined them on the way and the group ran down the FOB into the heavily barricaded San Martin Marg. They were nabbed before they could get near to the summit venue.
30/03/12 Indrani Basu/Times of India
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