Public condemns interruption of torch relay, www.cctv.com, 04-08-2008 : « Tibet independence separatists' attempts to disrupt the Olympic torch relay were foiled by Paris police on Monday. Their activities have incited condemnations from the French public and overseas Chinese ».
(en) "Torch-bearer boycotts Bangkok Olympic relay", France 24, 19 avril 2008 : « Some 80 sporting and business personalities from Thailand will relay the torch through Bangkok under high surveillance. But there will be one notable absence. Narisa Chakrapongse of the Green World Foundation is the first torch bearer to have boycotted the event. »
(en) Doug Saunders, How three Canadians upstaged Beijing, 29 mars 2008 ; citation 1 : « Last May, the Dalai Lama's Tibetan government-in-exile put together a meeting in Brussels of all the major Tibet organizations — there are hundreds, and they're organized under a Washington-based umbrella group, the International Tibet Support Network. There, the exiled Tibetans decided that the Olympics should be the single focus of their activities for the next 15 months. » - citation 2 : « As the torch makes its slow journey around the world, passing through Beijing this weekend before crossing Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the Americas before returning to China for its controversial trip through Tibet in May, the three Canadian women are working their BlackBerrys and laptops late into the night, ensuring that something dramatic will happen at each stop » (il s'agit de Kate Woznow (Students for a Free Tibet, à New York), Lhadon Tethong (Students for a Free Tibet, Washington) et Freya Putt, étudiante à l'université de Victoria).
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(en) Doug Saunders, Beijing has become the guardian of the Chinese brand, 19 avril 2008 : « And now they also know, thanks to a report carried on the state-owned Xinhua News Agency, that "according to a news report by Canadian journalist Doug Saunders," these attacks on China were orchestrated in a Washington-Berlin conspiracy that began when the German state-run Friedrich Naumann Foundation organized a conference in Brussels, attended by the U.S. State Department, where the whole anti-China plot was launched. And, furthermore, according to an article in the China Daily that cites me, Chinese readers have learned that "the Lhasa riots" were "planned and organized long ago" by this same government-backed band of activists. »
(en) « BOOC thanks overseas supporters for torch relay, criticizes radical saboteurs », Xinhua, 10 avril 2008 : « Supporters of Tibetan independence attacked the Chinese girl, who lost her right leg when she was nine (..). Jin held the torch tightly in her arms, while three or four people tried to take the torch from her. »
