China Factory Makes "Free Tibet" Flags


	China Factory Makes "Free Tibet" Flags

masbury

4-29-2008 1:29 AM

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humor, china, tibet, foreign policy

masbury says:

Forgive them, Chairman Mao, they know not what they do.

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4-29-2008 12:57 PM

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The factory in Guangdong had been completing overseas orders for the flag of the Tibetan government-in-exile.
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Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.
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But then some of them saw TV images of protesters holding the emblem and they alerted the authorities, according to Hong Kong’s Ming Pao newspaper.
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