China reports riots in Sichuan province

msnbc ^ | 3-24-2008

[rdl6989]

BEIJING - One policeman was killed and several others injured in riots Monday in western Sichuan province, China’s state media reported.

The official Xinhua News Agency gave no other details regarding the riot.

Xinhua also said that 381 people involved in protests in another Sichuan county, Aba, had surrendered to police, according to local authorities.

The Communist leadership has faced the biggest challenge to its rule in the Himalayan area in nearly two decades after protests in the Tibetan capital of Lhasa exploded into violence on March 14, sparking sympathy protests in the neighboring provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai.

Protests also have spread to Nepal and India.

[rdl6989]

I am surprised Xinhua mentioned it at all.

[Jeff Head]

IMHO, it must be much worse than they report for them to report it at all.

[Brian S. Fitzgerald]

will the Olympic contestants be required to wave Mao’s little book at the open ceremony?

[Army Air Corps]

Ping, guys.

[tflabo]

Let’s hope and pray the whole damned commie country has a humongous riot and stirs up the Chi-coms to their rotten, dirty core... boycott the Olympics BIGTIME...

[Centurion2000]

wow ... the chinese civil war begins?

[sweetiepiezer]

BOYCOTT CHINA!!!!!!

[indcons]

FABULOUS news...may the oppressed peoples of China unite in rebellion against their genocidal ChiCom regime.

[rdl6989]

I do hope and pray it is so.

[rdl6989]

[Army Air Corps]

This is the year that the ChiComs were planning to say, “Look at us! We are a happy, united people and will prove it to the world.” The oppressed wisely chose the regime’s “Showcase Year” to show the real China to the world and force the regime’s hand. This is not 1989 - there are alternative media. Power to the people.

[kinghorse]

Them tiny horses run
into the midnight sun
clap clap clap clap clap
deep in the heart of Ti-bet

[kinghorse]

Tibet sounds a little like their Texas. Mongolian BBQ? Independent thinking. Proud asskicker history.

[kinghorse]

funny hats. must be their germany/texas.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

can’t believe the chicoms are revealing this news. unless they will use it as a excuse for/when after they drop the hammer on these poor freedom seeking people.

[Army Air Corps]

...sympathy protests in the neighboring provinces of Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai.

The pot is simmering.

[meanie monster]

bookmark

[rahbert]

Mongolia != Tibet.

Tibetans sear in yak butter, Mongols barbecue.

[meanie monster]

How many Chinese citizens are Buddhist? It may just be their little Texas.

[kinghorse]

not even close?

[CarrotAndStick]

Mongolians hate Chinese guts.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[Rennes Templar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1989745/posts?page=2

[Rennes Templar]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1989745/posts?page=2

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[ApplegateRanch]

Bumper sticker ideas, recycled from the Sixties.

“What if they gave an Olympics, but nobody came?”

“Make music, not games!”

“Boycott Olympics Sponsors”

“Tibet, si; China, NO!”

“No mo’ Mao!”

[Blue State Insurgent]

China is an evil empire.

[Army Air Corps]

Ping.

[null and void]

If only this:

Said "ARM TIBET"

[Conservative4Ever]

Mongolian BBQ? Independent thinking. Proud asskicker history.

Mongolian BBQ.....ummmmmmmm....yummy.

[Caramelgal]

The Chi Coms have tried to destroy Tibetan culture by forcibly relocating Tibetans to other Chinese provinces and moving ethnic Chinese into Tibet.

But the PRC failed to realize that while you can take people from their lands and take lands from the people, you can’t destroy their heart and soul. And my heart and soul is with the Tibetan people.

But while the Tibetan struggle is a modern day and admirable David and Goliath story, very sadly, I think the US and many other nations will only pay lip service to their cause. We will make some “statements” and some “protests” but in the end we will acquiesce to the juggernaut that the Chinese economy and military might has become, one that despite the warnings of some who were dismissed as nut cases, many have warned us about for years.

[MtnClimber]

Get GE to make a toilet big enough to flush all Chinese communist politicians in one flush.

[Conservative4Ever]

I was always expecting Iran to get to this point...but China?...wow..who would have thought.

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

ping

[TigersEye]

[cookcounty]

Maybe somebody will distribute little flags to the athletes!

[AmericanInTokyo]

Let us embarrass the hell out of them.

I would even be for posters worldwide, with the logo:

STOP THE TORCH!

[AmericanInTokyo]

[AmericanInTokyo]

bump 人民武装警察部队 watch those guys

[Joe Boucher]

Time for another Boxer rebellion,
You go boys, kick some chi-com ass.

[Army Air Corps]

I am sending that to people in E-mail.

[TigersEye]

Good idea. Someone in Germany made that. Good for them. It would make good confetti strips to strew in the path of the torch as it goes around the world.