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Riots (Part 1 of 2)
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hoe de CNN en de westerse media de zaak in Tibet verdraaien!!
Western Media
Fabrications regarding the Tibet Riots
Fake Videotape used by CNN
by Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research, April 16, 2008
On the day of the Lhasa Riots (March 14,
2008), there is evidence of media fabrication by CNN.
The videotape presented by CNN in its
News Report on the 14th of March (1.00pm EST) was manipulated.
VIDEO: Tibet
monks protest against Chinese rulers (CNN, March 14, 2008)
The report presented by CNN's Beijing
Correspondent John Vause focussed on the Tibet protests
in Gansu province and in the Tibetan capital Lhasa.
What was shown, however, was a videotape of the Tibet protest
movement in India.
Viewers were led to believe that the protests
were in China and that the Indian police shown in the videotape
were Chinese cops.
At the outset of the report, a few still
pictures were presented followed by a videotape showing
police repressing and arresting demonstrators in what appeared
to be a peaceful protest:
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT
[CNN Vause reports on the protest movement
in Gansu province. (starts at 1'.00)]
CNN received these photographs from Gansu
province, where there is a large Tibetan population. [still
photographs followed by video footage] According to Students
for a Free Tibet, about 2,000 protestors took to the streets
earlier today. They were there for about three hours. They
flew the Tibetan flag and called for an independent Tibet.
All of this comes after days of unrest in Tibet after monks,
who were marking the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising
against Chinese rule. (CNN News, 1.00pm EST, March 14, 2008)
The voice over of John Vause then shifts
into reporting on violence in Lhasa. The videotape however
depicts the Tibetan protest in Himashal Pradesh, India.
[JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT]
And what could be worrying here to Beijing
is that these demonstrations are being joined by ordinary
Tibetan civilians, lay Tibetans. The targets here are ethnic
Chinese. We've been told by one Chinese woman that she was
attacked by Tibetan rioters. Her injuries sent her to hospital.
Also under fire here, Chinese-owned businesses, as well
as government offices, and also the security forces.According
to U.S.-based human rights groups, the three main monasteries
on the outskirts of Lhasa have now been surrounded by Chinese
troops, and they've been sealed off.We've also heard over
the last couple of days, according to human rights groups,
that more than a dozen monks have been rounded up and arrested.
And there are reports, unconfirmed, that at least two people
have been killed.
The video footage, which accompanied CNN's
John Vause's report, had nothing to do with China. The police
were not Chinese, but Indian cops in khaki uniforms from
the Northeastern State of Himachal Pradesh, India.
Viewers were led to believe that demonstrations
inside China were peaceful and that people were being arrested
by Chinese cops.
Chinese Cops in Khaki Uniforms
1'.27-1'.44" video footage of "Chinese
cops" and demonstrators including Buddhist monks. Chinese
cops are shown next to Tibetan monks
Are these Chinese Cops from Gansu Province
or Lhasa, the Tibetan capital, as suggested by CNN's John
Vause's Report?
REPORT ON CHINA,
MARCH 14

Alleged Chinese cops repressing Tibet demonstrators in China
, CNN, March 14, 2008 1'.36''

Alleged Chinese cops in khaki uniforms repressing Tibet
demonstrators in China, CNN, March 14, 2008 1'40"
Their khaki uniforms with berets seem
to bear the imprint of the British colonial period.
Khaki colored uniforms were first introduced
in the British cavalry in India in 1846.
Khaki means "dust" in Hindi
and Persian.
Moreover, the cops with khaki uniforms and mustache do not
look Chinese.
Look carefully.
They are Indian cops.
The videotape shown on March 14 by CNN
is not from China (Gansu Province or Lhasa, Tibet's Capital).
The video was taken in the State of Himachal Pradesh, India.
The videotape of the Tibet protest movement in India was
used in the CNN report on the Tibet protest movement within
China.
In a March 13 Report by CNN, demonstrators
are being arrested by Indian police in khaki uniforms during
a protest march at Dehra, about 50 km from Dharamsala in
the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
VIDEO; Tibet
Protest movement in India, CNN, March 13, 2008
"Indian police arrested around 100
Tibetans on Thursday, dragging them into waiting police
vans, as they tried to march to the Chinese border to press
claims for independence and protest the Beijing Olympics."
(REUTERS/Abhishek Madhukar (INDIA))
Below are images
from the CNN's report on March 13, on the protest movement
in Himachal Pradesh, India:
Compare these
images to those in the March 14 CNN report. Same cops, same
uniforms, same Indian style mustache
CNN MARCH 13 REPORT
ON INDIA
Indian cops repressing Tibet demonstrators
in Himachal Pradesh, India CNN, March 13, 2008 0'.53"Indian
cops repressing Tibet demonstrators in Himachal Pradesh,
India CNN, March 13, 2008 1'.02

Indian cops repressing Tibet demonstrators in Himachal Pradesh,
India CNN, March 13, 2008, 1'.18"

Indian cops repressing Tibet demonstrators in Himachal Pradesh,
India CNN, March 13, 2008 2.04
We invite our readers to examine these
two reports as well as the Transcript of the March 14 CNN
program.
The CNN's March 14 report on the Tibet
Protest movement in China shows Chinese cops in khaki uniforms,
yellow lapels and berets. While the videotape is not identical
to that of March 13, CNN's coverage of the events in China
on March 14 used a videotape taken from the coverage of
the Tibet Protest movement in India, with Indian cops in
khaki uniforms.
The protest movement in India on March
13 was "peaceful". It was organised by the Dalai
Lama's "government in exile". It took place within
50 km of the headquarters of the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala.
The Western media was invited in to film
the event, and take pictures of Buddhist monks involved
in a peaceful, nonviolent march. These are the pictures
which circled the World.
So what has occurred is that CNN has
copied and pasted its own videotape of the Tibet Protest
movement in India and has fabricated a Gansu Province/ Lhasa,
China "peaceful" protest movement with Chinese
cops in khaki British colonial style uniforms.
The Chinese never adopted the British
style khaki uniform and beret.
These uniforms do not correspond to those
used by the police in China. (See photograph below)

No khaki uniforms in China. These are the uniforms of China's
"Armed Police".
Meanwhile, the images of the violent riots
in Lhasa, in which a criminal mob set fire to shops, homes
and schools, burning several people alive, and stabbing
innocent civilians with knives were not shown on network
TV in the US and Western Europe. Small segments of the riots
in Lhasa were shown out of context and with a view to accusing
the Chinese authorities of repressing a "peaceful protest".(See
our report on the events, see coverage
of the Lhasa Riots by China's CC-TV)
While the videotape used is not identical,
both CNN reports, however, show the same cops in khaki uniforms
and the same Tibetan demonstrators in India. The
footage used in support of CNN's March 14 coverage of the
protext movement in China has nothing to do with China.
it happened in India.
CNN has got its
countries mixed up.
Sloppy journalism
or media fraud?
VIDEO: Tibet
monks protest against Chinese rulers (CNN, March 14, 2008)
VIDEO; Tibet
Protest movement in India, (CNN, March 13, 2008)
COMPLETE TRANSCRIPT
OF CNN NEWS COVERAGE ON TIBET (MARCH 14, 2008
CNN NEWSROOM 1:00
PM ESTMarch 14, 2008 Friday
[with Don Lemon and John Vause reporting
from Beijing]
....
LEMON: All right. So this place, we
know, should be known for peace. Right? But that is not
what is happening here lately.Buddhist monks demonstrating
for independence from China. Ethnic Tibetans join in,
and soon -- soon streets are filled with screams, with
gunfire, with rioting. And so far the Chinese government
has refused to allow CNN to even enter Tibet.Our John
Vause brings us what he knows. He's in Beijing.(BEGIN
VIDEOTAPE)JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The latest information
from our sources in Lhasa tell us that the streets are
basically deserted, except for patrols by police cars
and armored military vehicles.We're told fires are still
burning and phone lines are still down, but electricity
has been restored. And the situation there now is described
as relatively calm. But these protests do appear to be
spreading to the east of the country.CNN received these
photographs from Gansu province [still picture followed
by live video of Indian protest], where there is a large
Tibetan population. According to Students for a Free Tibet,
about 2,000 protestors took to the streets earlier today.
They were there for about three hours. They flew the Tibetan
flag and called for an independent Tibet. All of this
comes after days of unrest in Tibet after monks, who were
marking the 49th anniversary of a failed uprising against
Chinese rule.And what could be worrying here to Beijing
is that these demonstrations are being joined by ordinary
Tibetan civilians, lay Tibetans. The targets here are
ethnic Chinese. We've been told by one Chinese woman that
she was attacked by Tibetan rioters. Her injuries sent
her to hospital.Also under fire here, Chinese-owned businesses,
as well as government offices, and also the security forces.According
to U.S.-based human rights groups, the three main monasteries
on the outskirts of Lhasa have now been surrounded by
Chinese troops, and they've been sealed off.We've also
heard over the last couple of days, according to human
rights groups, that more than a dozen monks have been
rounded up and arrested. And there are reports, unconfirmed,
that at least two people have been killed.Beijing has
now moved to seal off Tibet, banning foreigners and journalists
from traveling there. Flights and train services have
also been canceled. John Vause, CNN, Beijing.(END VIDEOTAPE)
This is not the only example of media
fabrication where video images and photographs are manipulated.
What really happened.
Compare CNN's report using a
fake videotape to the coverage of the Lhasa riots
on China State TV.
coverage
of the Lhasa Riots by China State Television CC-TV
Who is Telling the Truth?
Global
Research Articles by Michel Chossudovsky
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