Author: looslloosl Date: Mar 29, 2008 10:10
*"Many reports were not accurate," said Tony Gleason.
*"The protests were by no means peaceful," Gleason said.
*"I never saw police open fire to the mobsters," he added.
LHASA, March 24 (Xinhua) -- While some Western media rashly accuse
China of "violent crackdown" on the "peaceful protests" in Tibet, some
foreigners there disagreed.
"Many reports were not accurate," said Tony Gleason, field
director of Tibet Poverty Alleviation Fund, an American organization
which helps poor Tibetans through skill training and small sum of
financing.
Surfing the Internet in his hotel, Gleason saw the Western reports
on the incidents in Tibet. In some reports, the riot was described as
"peaceful" and "unarmed" demonstration cracked down by the Chinese
government.
"The protests were by no means peaceful," Gleason said.
He recalled that he was dining at the Snowland Restaurant with his
wife and one-year-old daughter on March 14 when a large group of
mobsters threw bricks and hand-sized rocks at cars on the street.
"I saw black smoke from the center of the city, and there was more
smoke from different parts," he said at the Gajilin Hotel where he ...
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