(23 May 2001)
1. Various of protesters marching
2. Police officer holding protesters back
3. Police arresting young protesters
4. Police taking man into police station
STORYLINE:
Police in New Delhi detained about 20 Tibetans as they tried to march to the Chinese embassy to protest against the 50th anniversary of China's takeover of their homeland.
The Tibetan Youth Congress members had marched barely 200 metres (yards) in the Indian capital on Wednesday, shouting slogans such as "Leave Tibet" and "Long live the Dalai Lama", when they were detained.
Police said the protesters didn't have permission to organise a march.
The protest coincided with the 50th anniversary of the signing of an agreement between Tibet and China on May 23, 1951, formalising Chinese rule after communist troops overran the region the previous year.
Meanwhile, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, met U-S President George W Bush in Washington on Wednesday.
The Buddhist leader, who runs a government-in-exile from the Indian Himalayan town of Dharamsala, says he wants autonomy for Tibet, not separation from China.
Officials of the government-in-exile said he would ask Bush to help him initiate a dialogue with China.
The 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner has long sought a dialogue with China over the future of Tibet, but Beijing says the Dalai Lama should first accept Tibet as a part of China.
Many Tibetans say the 1951 agreement between Tibet and China was "forced upon an unwilling and helpless" Tibetan government and was invalid.
China marks the day as the "peaceful liberation of Tibet" and says that it has rescued virtually an entire population from economic misery.
Thousands of Tibetans, along with the Dalai Lama, fled to India nine years after Chinese troops marched into the region.
New Delhi police said they had filed a case against the detained protesters, but didn't say when they would release them.
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