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Apr 29, 8:39 am, fruitella <visualseep...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> the Tibetan flag is banned in china
>
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>
> Made in China: Factory making 'Free Tibet' flags raided
> 29 Apr 2008, 1607 hrs IST,AFP
>
> HONG KONG: Days before the Olympic torch is due in China for the
> final
> leg of its controversial world tour, police there have raided a
> factory producing Tibetan independence flags, a re****t said.
>
> Police in the southern province of Guangdong, which borders Hong
> Kong
> and is China's manufacturing hub, said the factory had been making
> the
> distinctive flags to fulfil an overseas order, Hong Kong's Ming Pao
> newspaper said.
>
> In a raid on April 20, police discovered thousands of the flags
> packed
> and ready for ****pment, with many more being made, the paper said in
> a
> re****t on Sunday.
>
> It said police believed the flags could have been destined for Hong
> Kong, ordered by pro-Tibetan groups planning to demonstrate when the
> Olympic torch is paraded through the territory on Friday.
>
> The factory owners were detained and told police they did not know
> the
> flags signified Tibetan independence, the re****t said, adding that
> factory employees had alerted police after seeing the flags on
> television and looking them up on the Internet.
>
> Vehicles travelling to Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, were being
> checked to ensure they were not trans****ting the flags into the
> former
> British colony, though police believed some could have already
> arrived.
>
> While the flag -- which shows a bright yellow sun on a red and blue
> background flanked by two snow lions -- is banned in China, it is
> not
> illegal in Hong Kong.
>
> The torch relay has become a focus for a wide range of complaints
> against China's communist government, including its human rights
> record.
>
> Demonstrators calling for independence for Tibet, which has been
> under
> Chinese rule since 1950, have dogged its progress, notably in
> London,
> Paris and San Francisco.
I have said it many times.
China's worst enemy is the Chinese people themselves.
They will do anything for the mighty dollar.
Their leaders may have become the worst examples of the worst of
capitalism
and forced those corrupt ideals on it's people.
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