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Tibetan stumps cops during Jiabao’s visit

DH News Service Bangalore:

Senior police officials conceded that the incident, which took place in full glare of the media, was a security lapse.

For quite some time, the City police were left dumbstruck. A Tibetan protester caused a security breach by climbing on the tower of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) building in Bangalore and raised slogans against the Chinese occupation of Tibet, even as Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao was addressing the scientists on the ground floor on Sunday afternoon.

The high drama began to unfold around 3 pm, after the Chinese Premier arrived at IISc along with a large delegation. He was addressing the scientists when it all started.

Taking the police and the IISc security personnel off guard, the man emerged from the tower of the main building waving a ‘Tibetan flag’ and a red cloth banner carrying the words ‘Free Tibet’, and threw pamphlets down with the message ‘Let there be peace in Tibet’ written on them.

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When a scribe asked the man to identify himself, he said he was Tenzin Tsundue, general secretary of the ‘Friends of Tibet’ and then continued to raise slogans in English and Hindi against China and demanded “liberation” of Tibet. “You (China) can never suppress the voice of Tibet,” he said.

The incident, which happened in full glare of the media, came as an embarrassment to the police. Tsundue crossed the balcony wall and stood on the edge, which is over 100 feet above the ground, for nearly 15 minutes even as some television channels beamed his action live.

After a while, some securitymen reached the tower, overpowered Tsundue and took him into custody.

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Senior police officials including IGP K V R Tagore and Additional Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) H C Kishore Chandra, who were present there, admitted that there was a security lapse.

“It’s a security lapse. There is no doubt about it,” Mr Chandra said. Asked whether any action would be taken against the policemen for the lapse, he said “wait and watch”.

Police sources said the man must have breached the security cover early on Sunday morning or Saturday.

The internal security is maintained by the IISc security personnel. IISc Director Goverdhan Mehta said he was yet to get details of the incident.

Incidentally, this not the first time that Tsundue has ‘elevated’ himself for the cause of a free Tibet.

When Mr Wen’s predecessor Zhu Rongji visited Mumbai in January 2002, Tsundue climbed up to the 14th storey of the Oberoi hotel and unfurled his flag, even as the Chinese delegation watched from the windows. The Centre has termed as “unfortunate” the protest by a Tibetan youth. “This is an unfortunate incident. The miscreant has been promptly apprehended,” External Affairs Ministry spokesman Navtej Sarna said in Delhi.

“Premier Wen Jiabao is an honoured guest of this country and all efforts are being made to ensure a complete success of his visit,” Sarna said. Meanwhile, the State government has ordered a high-level enquiry into the incident.

Taking a serious note of the incident, Chief Minister N Dharam Singh spoke to DGP S N Borkar and asked him to hold a high-level probe, official sources said.

Speaking to Deccan Herald, Additional Commissioner Kishore Chandra said the lapse on the part of police officers was being investigated into. “So far no police officer has been suspended in connection with the lapse. We will conduct a detailed inquiry,” he said.

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