China blocks YouTube Tibet video
p2pnet news | Freedom:- With the Beijing Olympics in the wings, China has blocked YouTube videos showing Chinese troops violently trying to put down protests in the capital Lhasa.
Prime minister-in-exile, Samdhong Rinpoche, says some 100 people died in the freedom demonstrations which started from March 10 in the capital city of Lhasa, according to Agence France-Presse.
The Chinese authorites acted quickly brutally to quell the protests, ordering demonstrators to give themselves up by tonight.
"Defying a massive deployment of Chinese security forces, ethnic Tibetan protesters unfurled their forbidden national flag and torched a police station," says the Ottawa Citizen, going on:
"Meanwhile, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, met with reporters in the mountain town of Dharamsala, India, and told them he was powerless to stop the protests, which began a week ago with a peaceful procession of monks in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa and have quickly evolved into the largest outpouring of rage against Chinese rule in 20 years."
Says the Telegraph >>>
China’s censors have tried to stem the flow of information from Tibet reaching the outside world and also block foreign news from their own citizens.
The government blocked the YouTube video sharing site within China, to prevent viewers seeing images of the protests and the army’s brutal response. Any internet search for a website containing references to Tibet had already been censored.
A Tibetan journalist covering his homeland from neighbouring Nepal, who asked to be identified as Lhuboom, said: "At this stage I think it’s really difficult in Lhasa to use the internet at all."
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Also See:
Agence France-Presse – Hundreds dead in Tibet unrest: parliament-in-exile, March 17, 2008
Ottawa Citizen – Fears of another Tiananmen in Tibet, March 17, 2008
Telegraph – China blocks YouTube over Tibet riots, March 16, 2008
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March 17th, 2008 at 7:42 am
BOYCOTT CHINA! It’s time for people who say they support democracy and religious freedom to prove it. BOYCOTT CHINA NOW!!!!
March 27th, 2008 at 5:43 am
This video is not happied in Tibet, it is in Nepal.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:20 am
YouTube – Tibet WAS,IS,and ALWAYS WILL BE a part of China.
please see it. Do not make a judgement before you have evidence. The chinese troop are protecting pepole in Lhasa.
March 29th, 2008 at 8:17 am
Have to realize that! Kommunism is erased from Earth! Chine is part of Kommunist country World! 10 years Chine will collapsed the curruption! Tibet will be independent country again! This is a spiritual war not make weapons and army forces! Send LIGHT to TIBET! mark
March 29th, 2008 at 9:10 am
This video is a pure fake video, it is NOTHING like what really happened in Tibet, I can’t believe there are still people believe in this kind of edit version crap, even me can do a better work that this crap …… Chinese are very nice people, I am an American currently study Chinese in Beijing, I can tell you this, what you see here is totally NOT true, the police and army guys were saving local citizens.
March 30th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
Check out http://www.proxylord.com to access blocked web sites. It is very fast and secure.. Works on Youtube also!
April 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
GREETINGS FROM THE U.S.A.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:38 pm
It’s not in china
March 8th, 2009 at 6:55 am
That is what happend in Tibet. and this kind of things often happen here in Lhasa.I am in Lhsa.
March 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Bruce you know you are not an American Studying in beijing… Your grammer is in the STPVO structure just like Chinese grammar. You are a chinese born Chinese speaking individual. You don’t have to lie about who you are to share your views…Unless you are afraid… I love the Chinese people and want them to taste of true Liberty! So their Country will truly become great!
Eric A Real American
April 7th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
i truly agree what eric hull has said.