*"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
lives and works.
"I never saw police open fire to the mobsters," he added.
Ursula Rechbach, from Slovenia, has worked more than eight years
for the Lhasa-based Project for Strengthening the Tibetan Traditional
Medicine.
The lady in her 50s said she was having lunch with her colleagues
on March 14, when the riot started. Her Tibetan colleagues quickly
accompanied her to her hotel.
"We hardly made it," Ursula said of the terrible day, adding she
saw from the roof of her hotel that young people in late teens holding
long sticks and stones in their hands, screaming, turning over cars,
setting cars on fire, and smashing and looting shops.
She later spoke to a few other foreigners in Tibet. Based on what
they had seen, they agreed that the riot must have been organized.
"You can't have it all of a sudden. It can be (happening) in one
place, if it is not organized. It must be premeditated, at least
prepared," she said.
Commenting on some Western media accusing China of "massacring
Tibetans" in their "peaceful protest", Ursula said, "You can invent
some stories in order to sell better, but how can you accuse anybody
if you were not there," she said.
Guzman Escardo, who works with the Association for International
Solidarity in Asia (ASIA), told Xinhua that the local police had been
extremely polite, contrary to what the Western media presumed.
"The police on the streets are kind and polite. They always smile
at me," he said.
Escardo said he watched channel nine of China Central Television
(CCTV) and the Spanish TV to see what was going on.
"The local government often contacts us to make sure I am safe.
They take a lot care of me," he said. "I feel safe at the hotel."
Aside from foreigners in Tibet, tens of thousands of Chinese
netizens have lashed out at a number of Western media for distorting
facts in covering the riot in Lhasa.
According to the netizens, German newspaper Berlin Morningpost
posted a picture on its website in which police in Lhasa rescued a
young man of Han nationality assaulted by rioters. But the caption
said "insurrectionist taken away by police".
In a similar case, N-TV, headquartered in Germany, was accused of
using TV footage showing police with captured protestors in a report
on the Tibet riot. The footage had been shot in Nepal, and the police
were Nepalese.
The N-TV said on March 23 that it would check the authenticity of
the TV footage, following Germany's RTL television which on the same
day said that it "regretted an error" in covering the riot in Lhasa.
The RTL TV admitted that it had reported the riots with a picture
taken on March 17 in the capital city of Kathmandu, where Nepalese
security forces were confronting demonstrators with batons.

I'm utterly disgusted by the action of Dalai Lama's gang in Tibet and
elsewhere in this world. They are no different from other terrorists.
They killed innocent people in Tibet and other parts of China, they
looted shops, supermarkets etc. They burnt down houses, shops etc.
They did exactly what many terrorists have been doing. They deserve to
be condemned!

On Mar 30, 1:07 am, Micky Wong wrote: