人多优势抵制藏独份子闹场的战术


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CONFRONTATIONS during the Olympic torch relay in Canberra are looming as it
becomes clear that rival pro-Chinese and pro-Tibetan demonstrators plan to
turn out in strength.

Thousands of Chinese students are expected to show their support for the
Beijing Games by greeting the flame when it arrives in Canberra next week ,
organisers said.

But the torch relay, which has been beset by protests during its journey
around the world, is also set to attract hundreds of Tibetans angry at
Olympic host nation China\'s treatment of their people.

The Australian leg follows large pro-China rallies in Sydney and Melbourne
at the weekend, where some 10,000 mostly student marchers criticised media
coverage of recent violent unrest in the Himalayan region.

Editor of the Chinese-language newspaper Australian Chinese Daily, Wilson Ng
, said speakers at the 6000-strong Sydney rally on Sunday outlined plans to
travel to Canberra to greet the torch on April 24.

\'\'(They said) they will be joining the celebrations in Canberra,\'\' he said.

A notice posted on the Australian Chinese Student Club website said it would
provide breakfast and lunch for students who volunteered to attend the
relay in Canberra.

There will be thousands of people coming from Sydney to Canberra to join
the Olympic Torch Flame Relay Ceremony, it said.

The note, which signed off with Light the Passion Share the Dream!!!, said
there would be five pick-up points within the city for students wishing to
take the two-hour road trip to Canberra.

The route for the Australian leg of the Olympic torch relay has been changed
and security enhanced after the spectacle attracted pro-Tibet protests in
Europe, with demonstrators trying to wrest the flame from the torch-bearers.

Australian Tibet Council spokesman Paul Bourke said he was concerned that
vast crowds of Chinese students, who number some 70,000 in Australia, could
overwhelm an emotional Tibetan group during the Canberra leg.

The rumours that I\'ve been hearing are that there are going to be literally
thousands of pro-Chinese people spontaneously organised to be in Canberra,
Mr Bourke said.

They will certainly outnumber us.

Mr Bourke said pro-Tibet supporters would probably number in the hundreds
rather than thousands and his group would try to ensure they all stuck
together, rather than fragment into smaller numbers more vulnerable to
confrontation.

I am concerned about what may happen, he said.

The Tibetans are definitely emotionally vulnerable. For a Tibetan who may
have spent time in a prison and been tortured to be called, to their face, a
liar or something else can be pretty confrontational.