Clashes mar Olympic torch relay

[Flashermac]

Thirty arrests have been made as clashes between pro-Tibet protesters and police marred the Olympic torch parade on its 31-mile London journey.

 

Protests over China's human rights record began soon after rower Sir Steve Redgrave started the parade at Wembley.

 

Demonstrators tried to snatch the torch from former Blue Peter host Konnie Huq.

 

And after an unpublicised change to the route, the Chinese ambassador carried the torch through Chinatown, amid fears her presence could be a flashpoint.

 

 

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[Bkkbound04]

They're just heading into East London now,I'd be surprised if they through it so smoothly as they did earlier.

 

JP

[Bkkbound04]

They've moved the torch into a bus, it was never gonna run through East London on foot.

Th Metropolitan police know when they're beaten.

 

JP

[Guest lazyphil]

anyone getting balshy with the honey konnie hug needs a kick in the nuts. really, do any of these numptys (not the tibetens but the usual bunch of wasters) know what they're protesting about?....whats the full story, maybe china has legal rights to tibet?

[Bkkbound04]

I'm none the wiser about china,except to see their massive expansion across the economic globe,I've see the hoards of chinese tourists hitting Pattaya,but its never been possible to engage with any of them as they are chaperoned and herded like sheep from tourist spot to tourist spot. One time in Mini Siam my wife speaks madarin and tried to speak with a small group of them but very quickly the group leader 'commisar' came over and made it clear they were'nt to interact, especially with me in the facinity.

 

JP

 

[rogueyam]

do any of these numptys (not the tibetens but the usual bunch of wasters) know what they're protesting about?....whats the full story, maybe china has legal rights to tibet?

 

You tell us. You sound like the expert here.

 

[Old Hippie]

Well, here in SFO, there is a big action planned, the Tibet gang and the Darur gang and everyone else with their own agenda has been passing out their leaflets and what not, and asking for people to come and support them...apparently, if they aren't careful, China could overtake the USA in the world's hatred/blame for everything.

[kamui]

I am surprised that some people say that they don't know what's going on, since this is known since many years:

- The country is flooded whit Han Chinese with the aim to make the Tibetans a minority.

- Tibetan culture is destroyed systematically, some call it a cultural genocide.

- The Tibetans don't any political or human rights at all

- The nature is plundered systematically, especially the forests are cut down. Whole Asia will pay for this, since important rivers originate from there.

 

The Chinese might or might not have rights on Tibet, but this doesn't justify the oppression of a whole nation and the erasure of a several thousand years old culture, especially since the leader the Dalai Lama does not demand indepence but a justified autonomy under Chinese rule.

 

[Torneyboy]

Wise move ..imo

[Flashermac]

<< maybe china has legal rights to tibet? >>

 

Same rights as Britain had to India, Belgium to the Congo, Italy to Somalia, the US to the Philippines, the Froggies to Algeria etc etc.

 

 

China slams "vile" Olympic torch protest in London

 

 

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's state media on Monday condemned the "vile misdeeds" of the protesters who disrupted the Olympic torch's marathon relay through London.

 

A Beijing Olympics spokesman "strongly denounced" the demonstrations, which included an attempt to put out the flame with a fire extinguisher, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

 

Thousands of protesters waving Tibetan flags and shouting "Shame on China" tried to spoil the torch's run through London on Sunday, the British leg of the international relay billed by Beijing as the "harmonious journey".

 

At least 35 people were arrested by police, who at one point were forced to rush the flame onto a double-decker bus in the city centre when about 100 protesters tried to seize it.

 

"As for the vile misdeeds of the 'Tibet separatist' activists who tried to disrupt the torch relay, many local residents also expressed their total resentment," the Xinhua report said.

 

The torch represents the loftiest Olympic ideals of "peace, friendship and harmony" and China's decision to send it on a global procession was to encourage people "to together build a more harmonious, better tomorrow", the Beijing spokesman said, according to Xinhua.

 

The Olympic flame is expected to remain a magnet for anti-Chinese protests ahead of the August Games in Beijing, with campaigns aimed at China's crackdown in Tibet and its links with the bloodshed in Sudan's Darfur region.

 

 

Fuck the PRC!