Kathmandu (Nepal), 6 jul (EFE/EPA).- (Image: Narendra Shrestha).-The Nepalese authorities today banned Buddhists and the Tibetan community in exile in Kathmandu from celebrating the 82 birthday of your spiritual leader, the dalai lama, para no molestar a "naciones amigas", in clear reference to China.
IMAGES FROM THE DALAI LAMA'S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION IN KATHMANDU, DHARAMSALA AND NEW DELHI. video here
EFE
THURSDAY, 6 JULY OF 2017 – 12:27 CEST
The Nepalese authorities today banned Buddhists and the Tibetan community in exile in Kathmandu from celebrating the 82 birthday of your spiritual leader, the dalai lama, para no molestar a "naciones amigas", in clear reference to China.
"No queremos que tenga lugar en nuestro territorio ninguna actividad contra naciones amigas. Ese tipo de actividades están prohibidas", the spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior told Efe, Deepak Kafle, when justifying the decision.
The main event of the day, which was planned at Srongtsen Monastery, in the Nepalese capital, had to be canceled by police order, which led the followers of the Dalai Lama to choose to spread out to celebrate the occasion.
"No hemos podido tener un gran acto, (so) we celebrated the birthday of his holiness in different monasteries in small groups, ya que temíamos la intervención de la Policía", Tenzin Lama explained to Efe, Buddhist monk of Santenlin Monastery.
According to the monk, The Police even prohibited them from moving around Kathmandu during the day..
The spokesperson for the capital police, Superintendent Pradhumma Karki, confirmed to Efe that they prohibited the main event in the city and deployed agents to prevent followers of the Dalai Lama from gathering there.
"Desplegamos a alrededor de 600 policías en el área para detener cualquier actividad contra nuestra nación amiga", Karki sentenced without expressly mentioning China, which maintains close relations with the Himalayan country, after changing its foreign policy to reduce its dependence on India.
Last year, on the occasion of the celebrations of 81 Dalái Lama Birthday, Nepalese police arrested 28 of his followers, mostly exiled Tibetans.
According to the Gregorian calendar, the spiritual leader was born on 6 July 1935 a Taktser, Shroud, in eastern Tibet.
in 1959, after the revolt in Tibet against communist China, The Dalai Lama had to flee and took refuge in India, where the authorities allowed him to install the Tibetan Government in exile in the northern city of Dharamsala.
This year the Dalai Lama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1989 for his peaceful struggle for the liberation of Tibet, He chose to celebrate his birthday in the important Buddhist center of Ladakh, in northern India.
