| Of all the times to have a flare up in
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| | they're not careful with this.
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| Tibet, a few months ahead of the Summer
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| | In a statement quoted by the state-run
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| Olympics is not a good pieace of public
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| | news agency Xinhua, the Tibetan
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| relations strategy. And as riots break
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| | government urged "the lawbreakers to give
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| out in this mountainous nation,
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| | themselves in by Monday midnight" and
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| International Olympic Committee President
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| | promised that "leniency would be given to
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| Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday
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| | those who surrender". Hey, I've got some
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| on calls for a boycott of the Summer
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| | great property in Arizona and Florida
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| Games in Beijing over China's crackdown
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| | that I'd seel at a great price as well.
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| in Tibet, saying it would only hurt
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| | This Chinese crackdown in Tibet is going
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| athletes.
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| | to be about as bad a PR piece to them as
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| Demonstrations against Chinese rule in
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| | the Rev. Jeremiah Wright was-is to Obama
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| Tibet on Friday-the most violent riots
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| | (can you say not good?).
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| there in nearly two decades-left at least
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| | The violence - the worst in Tibet since
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| 30 protesters dead, according to a
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| | 1989 - erupted on the fifth day of
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| Tibetan exile group. China ordered
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| | largely peaceful protests that began on
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| tourists out of Tibet's capital and
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| | Monday's anniversary of a 1959 uprising
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| troops patrolled the streets on Saturday.
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| | against Chinese rule. Fires broke out
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| Police used tear gas to disperse
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| | near the Jokhang temple, one of the most
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| demonstrators defying a curfew in the old
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| | sacred sites for Tibetan Buddhists, and
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| quarter of the city, and police later
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| | Xinhua reported that shops, banks and
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| cordoned off the centre. "Lhasa is
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| | hotels were destroyed. The demonstrations
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| completely closed and there is Chinese
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| | - like those last September in Burma -
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| military all over," Danish tourist Bente
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| | were initially led by Buddhist monks and
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| Walle told Reuters news agency.
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| | then attracted crowds of ordinary people.
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| China could be exporting the American
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| | And here I thought Buddhists were
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| financial disaster to their own shores if
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| | peaceful.
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