Posted on 11/22/2010 1:14:21 PM PST by greatdefender
BEIJING – A 13-year-old American boy campaigning to turn the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea into a peace park tried to get the Chinese president's attention Monday, staging a brief protest near Tiananmen Square before being led away by police.
Jonathan Lee unfurled a sign saying "peace treaty" and "nuclear free DMZ children's peace forest" as he stood outside Tiananmen Gate just north of the square in central Beijing.
The scene of numerous demonstrations over the years, the gate and square remain some of the most tightly controlled public spaces in China and all protests on it are quickly snuffed by security agents, sometimes violently. In 1989, tanks and troops rolled into the square to crush a student-led pro-democracy movement, killing at least hundreds of people.
Less than a minute after Lee began his demonstration, a man presumed to be a plainclothes police officer grabbed the boy's sign and waved away watching journalists, who had been contacted by Lee's family ahead of time. Three or four uniformed police officers then hurriedly escorted Lee and his mother away without commotion.
Police held the pair and a few hours later Lee and his mother, Melissa Lee, returned to their hotel where they were joined by the boy's father and sister. The family arrived unaccompanied at Beijing airport Monday evening to catch a Korean Airlines flight to Seoul, but declined to comment to The Associated Press.
The Lees' treatment by Chinese authorities was relatively mild compared with the often rough handling and swift, forced deportation given to most foreigners who try to stage protests in China. It was not clear if they were forced to leave the country or had already planned to do so.
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There is NO WAY a child of 13 comes up with this on his own. He is a brainwashed kid, and his parents should lose custody of him and any other child they have. This is abuse plain and simple.
I am surprised that China did not give this kid and his family the Tiananmen Square treatment.
The headline should say. “Family of retards prove they are that, in Beijing.”
This just proves the point that, politically, a majority of young people are blithering idiots till they actually have to work a real job and pay bills.
China should promptly kick this child and his family out.
The very idea of a “Peace Park” on the Korean DMZ sounds like some liberal media fantasy. I am sure this mushhead didn’t come up with it on his own.
what an idiot
Yeah. And here in the US, we're the idiots until a Mexican flag waving illegal expects the same treatment... or worse from enraged citizens.
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