Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Kuala Lumpur Torch Relay Leg

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/21/news/Olympic-Torch.php

From an international news source about the Kulala Lumpur leg of the torch relay. There were some protests interestingly enough from Japanese people who were attacked by Chinese supporters, but no one was seriously injured. There was also the odd single protester that was detained here or there, but for the most part it seems like the Malaysian part of the tour went rather smoothly. Most of the pictures I've found show lots of Chinese supporters waving flags and wearing red.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSSP11894820080421?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&pageNumber=3&virtualBrandChannel=0

This article talks about the preparation for the Kuala Lumpur portion and how the security was beefed up in anticipation, but there were less incidents than were expected. In this short article, the Embassy for the PRC recaps the torch relay in Malaysia with, of course, no mention of any of the protest incidents.

http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/xw/t427527.htm

I also read an article that i can't find now about how there were Falungong protesters outside the Chinese embassy before the torch relay which was sort of randomly thrown in the article since most articles have been about protesters for Tibet. From what I've read and seen from news reports, there were a few incidents but nothing like what occurred in France and there was an incredible turnout of Chinese supporters for the Kuala Lumpur portion of the relay. The Embassy also made an effort to bring more people from China to show support in Malaysia.

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