Tibetan Freedom Torch Launched in Ancient Olympia

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Uploaded by on Mar 11, 2008

On March 10, 2008, two weeks before the launch of the Chinese Olympic torch in Athens, a team of Tibetans went to the site of Ancient Olympia to launch the Tibetan Freedom Torch. But Chinese officials, with help from the Greek police, stopped them from entering the site. The Tibetans lit the torch outside the gate of Ancient Olympia. Dozens of Chinese officials and Greek policemen disrupted the ceremony and harassed the Tibetans.
But a few hours later, the Tibetan torchbearer managed to enter Ancient Olympia and successfully run the Tibetan Freedom Torch through the Temple of Hera, the birthplace of the Olympic Games.

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  • funny

  • FREE TIBET !!!!

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  • Do you think Tibet is part of China ????

    FREE Tibet and China

  • The communist party has been LOOTING Tibet for nearly 60 years.

    FREE Tibet from LOOTING

  • Education and medical services for Tibetans in Tibet is a joke.

    There were no serfs or slaves in Tibet in 1948.

    FREE Tibet from poor education.

  • Iraq is nearly free now.

    FREE China, Tibet, Congo, Sudan and Burma

  • Chinese side? Tibetan side?

    Dude that is really a very naive and one-sided question. It's like distinguish between good and bad, black and white. But there's much more diversity on this tibetan question.

  • loooooooool

    china XD

  • Free-To-Bed!

  • Shame on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to give the Olympics to a government who doesn't believe in human rights. The IOC is complacent in causing human suffering!

  • i suggest u be a little nicer, cus this jus shows how rude and ignorant u are. the dalai lama always wanted to separate, he's jus saying that he doesnt want to separate because he wants permission to go back to china so when he dies, the new dalai lama can replace him

  • wuts with the "FREE" tibet protest then? hun?

    and i suggest u be a little nicer, cus this jus shows how rude and ignorant u are.

    and the dalai used to want to separate, and he still does deep inside. he's just saying that he dusnt because he wants to go back to china, so when he dies, a new dalai will take his place

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