Breaking News – Lhasa, one hundred-day resistance against despotic rule
It has been one hundred days since the Communist authorities violently suppressed mass resistance in Lhasa against its despotic rule. Since then the Beijing Olympic torch relay has reached Lhasa.
On the twenty first of June, although the Lhasa situation was “basically stable”, Tibetan authorities completed the Olympic torch relay with the city besieged under heavy guard. The original route had been shortened in a three-hour journey, to arrive at the destination in less than two hours.
After the relay torch ended, a melt-fire ceremony was held in the Potala Palace, that is, to merge the torch fire from the torch relay transmission and the torch fire at the top of Mount Qomolangma into one. At the “melt-fire ceremony”, an embarrassing scene happened when the torch fire at Mount Qomolangma extinguished itself.
As Beijing’s Olympic torch relay walked all the way, the protests continued to follow, coupled with the March outbreak as the most serious Tibetan protests that had occurred in the past twenty years, the Communist authorities have been on high alert and mobilized tens of thousands of armed police and public security involved in defending the relay. The alarming extent of guards and protection along the official torch relay route has been astonishing.
One hundred days ago, the event broke out in Lhasa, Tibet, that detonated the global wave of solidarity for the independence of Tibet, had led to the Beijing Olympic torch global relay activities being met with various protests and obstructions.
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