Shame! Shame! Shame on China! Olympic Torch Became Symbol of Shame --
Paris Protests Disrupt Torch Relay

Paris Protests Disrupt Torch Relay

Olympic Officials Move Flame Inside Bus After Repeated Attacks on Runners

By John Ward Anderson and Molly Moore

Washington Post Foreign Service
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; A01

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2008/04/07/VI2008040700649.html...

PARIS, April 7 -- Thousands of rowdy demonstrators forced cancellation
of the last leg of the Olympic torch ceremony in Paris on Monday with
repeated attacks on the procession, escalating international protests
over China's human rights record ahead of the 2008 Games in Beijing this
summer.

About 3,000 French police officers, some of them spraying Mace, sought
to guard the 17-mile parade route but were often unable to stop
demonstrators, many of them waving Tibetan flags, from surging onto the
streets as torch carriers passed. At least three times, the torch was
extinguished and the athletes retreated for protection into buses.