Posted on 03/27/2008 9:43:21 AM PDT by indcons
Tibetan monks shouting pro-independence slogans caught Chinese officials by surprise Thursday during a highly scripted tour for Western journalists in Lhasa’s central Buddhist temple, disrupting China’s effort to portray the recent Tibetan rioting as the work of violent criminal thugs and separatists.
“Tibet is not free! Tibet is not free!” yelled one young Buddhist monk, who then started crying, according to an Associated Press correspondent in the tour.
Government handlers shouted for the journalists to leave and tried to pull them away during the 15-minute protest by about 30 monks at the Jokhang Monastery in central Lhasa. It was unclear whether the protesting monks were arrested.
The demonstration amounted to another embarrassment for China, which organized the press tour to help sway international opinion, which has focused on China’s heavy crackdown and arrests in the aftermath of the riots and led to talk of a boycott of the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing.
The Chinese wanted the reporters to see damage caused by the rioters and interview Chinese victims of the violence, the worst here in 20 years.
Reporters on the tour said the monks shouted that there was no religious freedom in Tibet and that the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader in exile, had been wrongly accused by China of responsibility for the rioting.
China’s official news agency, Xinhua, mentioned the unscripted protest in a brief dispatch, saying 12 monks “stormed into a briefing by a temple administrator to cause chaos.”
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Some very brave people who are standing up for liberty......while we do business with the devil.
“Involuntary organ donors” ping
Maybe if the Tibetans would convert to Islam the US would support their independence.
What ChiCom trolls????
Indeed they have. I would not be surprised if some were indeed paid by the PRC, as they do employ propaganda people to work on the net.
Not saying it happened in this instance, but it definitely is a possibility.
FReepmail
Read some of the threads from the past several days. The trolls basically say that the monks had it coming etc etc.
Nonsense down the line.
LOL you may be on to something.
They’ve been all over the place over the past two weeks. Right now, I’m tracking at least ten of them.
Fixed it.
The good news is you may be able to see them again when the “Bodies Tour” comes to a hellhole near you.
Tibet was free, and will be free for centuries to come. If ChiCom thinks that millions of people can be made and kept slaves for ever, please refer them to any history book.
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