Witness says Communist cop disguised as Tibetan started riot: An anonymous witness told the Tibetan Government in exile that one of the "Tibetan rioters" was in fact a Communist policeman (Epoch Times):
A Chinese woman from Thailand (who prefers that her name not be used) was studying in Lhasa when the protests broke out in March. As one of her friends is a policeman, she visited him at the local police station quite often and got to know other policemen there.
After the protests on March 14, she and other foreigners were sent to the police station where she saw a man with a knife in his hand walking in with some arrested Tibetans. The man later took off the Tibetan-style clothes and put on a police uniform.
This woman was sent out of Lhasa with other foreigners the next day. When she arrived in India via Nepal, she recognized the policeman she had seen in Tibetan garb from BBC TV news and photos that the Chinese embassy had provided to the media.
Ngawang Nyendra said the witness was shocked when she saw the policeman in the BBC broadcast. She realized then that the man had disguised himself as a Tibetan in order to incite people to riot.
This isn't the first piece of evidence revealing
Communist instigation of violence in Tibet; it is, however, the first time (I think) that we have an eyewitness to the cadres' actual role in all of this. Another
Epoch Times piece examines the way Communist media handled the "riot," and finds compelling evidence of Communist orchestration - including the fact that thousands of Communist police were already at the scene the day before the "riots" began.
Canada rips "military crackdown" in Tibet: Canada's Minister for Democratic Reform (who also serves as House Leader - their version of a legislative Majority Leader) openly supported "the people of Tibet" and became one of the few elected officials on the planet outside Taiwan to call the Communist action a "military crackdown" (
Globe and Mail). Meanwhile, Canadian blogger
Ezra Levant took aim at the Communist regime's "ventriloquist puppets" in Canada.
More on Tibet: Communist China invited diplomats into the occupied nation to examine its handiwork (
BBC). Joseph Klein (
Front Page Magazine) focuses on lack of action at the UN. San
Diegans stand with the
Tibetan people (
Epoch Times). Andrew Martin Fischer details the history of Communist China's occupation (
Far Eastern Economic Review).
Tsering Woeser (via
Epoch Times) provides a running account of the last two weeks in Tibet. Tibetan teenagers protest the mass arrest by the cadre-friendly Nepal government (
BBC).
Calls for Boycotting the Olympics continue to come in: Jason Lee
Steorts (
NRO) calls for the free world to stay home, while the editors at the Canadian
National Postleave the option open (h/t
Boycott 2008).
Naturally, the cadres are not happy (
Washington Post). Meanwhile, Congressman Frank Wolf (one of our favorites), moves to
defund any political junket that would include the Communist Olympiad (
Below the Beltway). Czech President Vaclav Klaus will skip the opening ceremony (
ABC). Meanwhile, the
IOC begs the cadres not to force the Olympics to tape delay (
Financial Times, UK).
U.S. officials count 1,400 Communist missiles pointed at Taiwan: The unnamed officials based their calculation on new "intelligence assessments" (
Washington Times). The number is even higher than outgoing Taiwanese President Chen
Shui-
bian's estimate of 1,328.
Australian Foreign Minister insists his government is tough on Communist China, all evidence to the contrary, including the minister's own words on the Olympics (
AAP via
Epoch Times).
Hong Kong bans Falun Gong practitioners from entering the city: The
latest example of one country, one-and-a-half systems, was noted by the
HK Standard(h/t
Between Heaven and Earth).
News on "another Chinese province" (Stalinist North Korea): It was a busy day for Stalinist-in-chief Kim
Jong-
il, with a missile test (
BBC and
CNN) and anti-American screed (
CNN).