Varning for protest i Bangkok mot olympiska elden 18/4!!!

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De thailandska myndigheterna varnar utlanningar for att idag, 18/4, protestera mot den olympiska eldens tur genom Bangkok. De sager att alla utlanningar som deltar i protesterna, inklusive de som har permanent uppehallstillstand, kommer att utvisas pa livstid.

Varningen bor tas pa storsta allvar aven om polisen inte har den makt de later paskina.

Goran

Citat fran The Nation

BANGKOK: -- Protesters disrupting tomorrow's Olympic-torch relay will be arrested immediately and prosecuted for public disturbance, police say.

Foreigners will be expelled and banned from returning. Those with residency will have it revoked permanently, spokesman Lt-General Watcharaphol Prasarnratchakij says.

"If they come here and engage in unlawful acts, they must be prosecuted ... if they engage in illegal activity, we will proceed according to the law by revoking their visa," he says.

"We have prepared everything to ensure the smoothness of the ceremony."

A Government House source says there are groups in this country motivated to disrupt the relay, including human-rights groups and the local Falun Gong.

Additional police have been deployed to the Plaza Athenee Hotel, where the torch and Olympic flame are housed ahead of tomorrow's 3pm run.

There will be as many as 2,000 policemen on duty along the route, according to the Olympic Committee of Thailand.

Four police vehicles and six officers will accompany the relay at all times. A bomb squad and a canine crew are on standby as is a special weapons and tactics outfit.

The heavy security highlights concerns here and the government's desire to avoid similar chaos to that which occurred overseas.

Free Tibet Network member Pokpong Lawansiri disagrees with the stance against pro-Tibet protests.

"Under the Constitution, an individual - local or foreigner - has the right to rally for a cause," he says. "Peaceful rally should be allowed".

He expects about 100 members to protests.

Prime ministerial aide Akhaphol Sorrasuchart says protests can continue as long as there's no run disruption and they do not break other laws, including traffic, or damage property.

A number of locations have been prepared for protests, although he will not say where.

The relay route through normally crowded Bangkok has been cordoned off with barricades to deter protests.

Rallying point

Networks and organisations planning pro-Tibet activities tomorrow include:

- Free Tibet Network, Thai Labour Campaign Group, Chulalongkorn University social critics, Activists for Social Change, Young People for Democracy Movement and Workers Democracy.

- Others include Reporters Without Borders and China pro-democracy and pro-Taiwan groups.

-- The Nation/xtra 2008-04-17

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[Captain Thailand 7]

Hej,

"inklusive de som har permanent uppehållstillstånd"

Ord och inga visor alltså. Folk får väl visa mitt missnöje med Kinas våldtäkt på Tibet på annat sätt då.

Seriöst skulle jag aldrig delta i motsvarande protest i Thailand, hur gott syftet än må vara.

[Gäst Atom]

Jag maste saga att jag tycker Kinas regering hanterar detta mycket klumpigt men det blir kanske sa nar man inte har nagon vana av protester, freedom of expression etc. Jag var i Kina nar debacklet med facklan i Grekland intraffade. Jag tittade pa CNN pa hotellet och som ni vet sa dyker samma nyheter upp dar var 5:e minut. Det blev smatt komsikt nar det helt plotsligt blev bild- och ljudavbrott var 5:e minut med texten "communication problem" i rutan. Det ar val just communication problem som ar regimens storsta problem.

Det Kina gor och har gjort i Tibet ar givetvis helt forkastligt. Jag spenderar ett par veckor i Kina varje manad och har diskuterat detta med manga kineser som for ovrigt ar bildade och politiskt medvetna. Nagon forstalese for Tibetanernas problem har jag dock aldrig mott, det ar alltid samma "otacksamma, efterblivna javlar" kommentarer man far.

Dock inget protesterande fran min sida, aker till Kina istallet pa sondag och kommer vara dar mesta tiden fram till midsommar da det bar av till Sverige. Kommer dock skriva Free Tibet pa varje Mastercard slip jag signerar for att visa mitt avstandstagande till regimen