By ANTARA News/Kyodo,
Kathmandu : Nepalese police broke up an anti-China protest in Kathmandu`s neighboring Lalitpur district and detained 137 Tibetan exiles Monday, police said.
An official at the Lalitpur district police office, who asked to remain unnamed, told Kyodo News that police detained 101 Tibetan men and 36 women from around at the main U.N. building in Lalitpur on Monday afternoon.
The Tibetans were chanting anti-China slogans and demanding an end to Chinese suppression of protests in Tibetan capital Lhasa.
Witnesses said the Tibetans, including monks and nuns, were dragged and hurled into police vans before being whisked away to detention.
Nepal`s Tibetan community has been organizing demonstrations in front of the Chinese Embassy and visa section in Kathmandu and the main U.N. building in Lalitpur since March 10, demanding an end to the Chinese crackdown in Tibet.
They suspended the demonstrations on April 3 to assist Nepal to peacefully hold a constituent assembly election April 10, but they resumed the demonstrations last Tuesday.
Earlier Monday, Zheng Xianglin, the Chinese envoy in Nepal, called on Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala and drew his attention to the anti-China activities on Nepali soil, local media reported.
Nepal receives substantial development aid from China and officially considers Tibet a part of China.
Anti-China demonstrations by Tibetans are prohibited in Nepal.
Since March 10, Nepalese police have been detaining Tibetan protestors on aregular basis, but the detainees are generally freed in the evening.