Tibet groups plan large Canberra protest to push China for talks

Apr 11, 2008, 12:20 GMT

Beijing - A large protest planned by Tibetans and their supporters
during the Olympic torch relay in Canberra is aimed at pushing China
to talk to the exiled Dalai Lama and is not against China or the
Olympics, the Australia Tibet Council said on Friday.

Most of Australia's estimated 450 Tibetan citizens are expected to
join a rally in the Australian city on April 24, joined by a 'large
network of Tibet supporters,' Simon Bradshaw, the council's campaign
coordinator, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in Beijing.

'It's important to point out that this is not anti-Chinese, it's not
anti-Olympics; it's really about Tibet, it's about recognizing the
problems that are there,' Bradshaw said.

'We're very lucky in Australia in that we have the right to democratic
protest in a way that Chinese, and certainly Tibetans, don't at the
moment,' he said.

'So there is an intention to use the torch relay to really highlight
what's going on in Tibet and build further pressure on China to sit
down with the Dalai Lama before the Olympics,' he said.

On Apr 11, 11:33 am, bluewave gmail.com> wrote:

Well, you can lie all you want, but you waste your time. The world
already knew. Look how shameful China should be with the Chinese
torch! The Olympic Torch relay must be hidden from the public.

On Apr 12, 12:33 am, bluewave gmail.com> wrote:

There will be a bigger welcoming crowd, but the media will focus on
the China bashing as usual.

"Chen" europe.com> wrote in message
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On Apr 11, 11:33 am, bluewave gmail.com> wrote:

Talk to the Tibetan refugees, that had to flee their homeland, running from
miltary guns behind them. Many of the refugees are in India. They are
outside the control of the Han Chinese.

"Yu" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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It is not only prosperity where China fell behind and stagnated for many
centuries, starting after the fall of the mongol empire. It was also in the
cultivation of awareness and conciousness of Human Rights. It's part of the
Chinese difficulty with all this, as many truly do not see it. Time to catch
up in this area also. Protests of free world peoples helps push that.

On Apr 13, 11:03 am, "RussellT" telus.net> wrote:

Human rights didn't become an issue until after the 1970s. The above
statement don't make any sense.

"rst0wxyz" yahoo.com> wrote in message
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It's been a long road from there to here. We must appreciated the long
march, and the progression of ideas. There was a long road to get to the
1970's. There was the practice of democracy in ancient Greece, where it
briefly came but died in practice. However, the idea was released into
human conciousness. Another milestone was the Magna Carta in England. Other
events followed over the centuries.

On Apr 13, 3:43 pm, "RussellT" telus.net> wrote:

It didn't seem to matter to those people as they raced to Asia and
Africa to enslave the two continents for colonies to loot and rape and
steal. And America didn't have any human rights until Martin Luther
King, jr. started marching and speaking out against enslavement.

On Apr 14, 2:03 am, "RussellT" telus.net> wrote:

U know nothing about history.
Read every post that I wrote and learn somthing.
China was the richest country on earth until the Opium war around
1850.
Mongol Empire was in AD 1200 something. There was 600 year in between.