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Chinese students studying in Korea jeered and clashed with South and North Korean protesters who were demanstrating for better human treatment towards North Korean refugess in China.

By SANG-HUN CHOE
Published: April 27, 2008

SEOUL, South Korea — Thousands of young Chinese assembled to defend their country’s troubled Olympic torch relay pushed through police lines on Sunday, some of them hurling rocks, bottled water and plastic and steel pipes at protesters demanding better treatment for North Korean refugees in China…

In other cities, the globe-trotting relay of the torch leading up to the Beijing Games in August has triggered protests against China’s crackdown on violent protests for independence in Tibet. In South Korea, one of the torch’s final stops before entering China, demonstrators focused on human rights for North Koreans who live in hiding in China after fleeing hunger in their homeland….

When lone protesters demanded that China stop repatriating North Korean refugees, they were quickly surrounded by jeering Chinese. Near the park, Chinese students surrounded and beat a small group of protesters, news reports said…

In another scuffle, at the city center where the five-hour torch run ended, Chinese surrounded several Tibetans and South Korean supporters who unfurled pro-Tibet banners, and kicked and punched them, witnesses said…

Although the torch run stirred little interest among South Koreans in general, thousands of North Korean defectors in the South and their supporters saw it as an opportunity to press Beijing to better protect North Korean refugees in China…

In recent years, thousands of North Koreans have fled across the loosely controlled Chinese border, rather than the heavily fortified border with South Korea. China sends back North Koreans it catches as illegal economic migrants, a policy condemned by rights groups. They face life-threatening punishment in labor camps once repatriated, according to rights groups…

Many placards Chinese waved on Sunday in Seoul criticized the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader whom China accuses of instigating violence.

“Tibet is part of China forever,” one said. (full article)

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It’s rather funny how similiar China and USA are and people don’t even realize it. When someone speaks out against the government in the USA…people are labelled as unpatriotic. If a Chinese person speaks out against the Chinese government, they are called a traitor. Both countries have certain groups who’ll act violently towards individuals with a different political view. Chinese people say the western media distorts the truth and the Chinese government openly censors it.

Western media doesn’t need to villify China when certain groups of Chinese people already do it themselves. So it’s one thing to protest and be supportive of Tibet being part of China (because I don’t give a crap)…but when you jeer at and beat up those protesting for better treatment of North Korean refugees…then f*ck you.

Get the hell out of Korea.

And there you go….I’ve been asking for something like this for quite some time. Free-styling with Nongak Dancers.

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Skim & Wing from JinJo Crew
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