Bangkok part 1

India is home to 100,000 Tibetan refugees, including the Dalai Lama and radical youth groups, and authorities wanted to ensure that chaotic protests like those seen in Paris and London did not mar the event. 16,000 police, soldiers and even elite commandos were deployed to throw up a huge security cordon around the central thoroughfare between the presidential palace and India Gate. Around 170 to 180 people in custody,after a day marked by a string of protests led to tracker dogs, bomb disposal units and metal detectors. The Tibetan Youth Congress attempted to disrupt the event but was instead detained in the days before the ceremony while another 46 Tibetans were arrested in Mumbai for trying to storm the Chinese consulate.