Calls for Olympic boycott after Tibet brutality

By Gethin Chamberlain / Telegraph
China's crackdown on demonstrators in Tibet has prompted international condemnation and a call for a boycott of this summer's Beijing Olympics. Protesters took to the streets to voice their anger in cities around the world. Some of the protests became violent and in India, Australia and China, police moved in to disperse crowds. The exiled government in Dharamshala in northern India, home to Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, said it had received confirmation that about 30 people had been killed, and was even hearing unconfirmed "numbers of more than 100 dead". Read more...

Posted by Editor at March 24, 2008 09:12 AM