A question to readers - why are so many (most) of the demonstrators for Tibet - NOT Tibetans?

Andrew, Sydney, Australia

I don't think it is democracy. olympic game is just a game, it is a chance for the people to come to understand the other people.
I just understand the western medias and the exiled-Tibetans and other anti-chinese groups utilize the chance to pressure the Chinese government. what they want?
I don't think the human right is better in western countries than in china in the past few years. and the china minority policy is ok in my opinion,
I also hope the china government should increase the open-minded and wising actions to face the crisis like the riot in tibet.
I think every one could express opinion in the public, but he or she should't affect other people's benefit and freedom.

Cao zheng mao, Xian, china/shaanxi pro.

The Olympic Torch Relay can be stopped and reduced by few violent Tibentan Protestors (compare thousands supportors at the same place), but you can not stop majority of people in the world beleive that it is a sporting events for celebrations.
You can not stop 1.3 billion chinese people's support on this event. By Chinese nature, we do not have the nature of violence and completely support the Olympic Torch Relay; therefore when thousands Chinese on the streets of London and Paris to show support, they were left unnoticed by the western media. We are raising the flag in everyone's hearts and singing National Anthem at same time all over the world to support this event with peace and loving manner!

Jinyu Ni, Sydney, Australia

As an ordinary Chinese citizen, I am very angry about what happened during the torch rally in London and Paris. Sports is sports, politics is politics. The Tibetan separatists who take advantage of the Olympics are shameful. From your report, I got the information that the westerner united together to be against Chinese people and China, which fully show your arrogance. How many of you have been to China? How many of you have been to Tibet and know the truth of this area? How could you blame the Chinese people, and even insult us in the name of protect the human rights of Tibetans? Who will protect the right of the innocent people who was hurt and even died in the riots? Why the western news medias used the cropped-up pictures and the wrong pictures to denigrate the Chinese government? What did the French government do in the Paris riot? Now, all my colleagues and I feel very angry about it, and doubted about your intention. What you have done to the Olympics only makes the Chinese uni

shi, Shanxi, china

What you have done to the Olympics only makes the Chinese people united together and totally supports our government. I found that many westerners have the bias and ideology about the event which is unfair to China.

shi, Shanxi, china

The IOC must step in and redeem itself.
Stop the torch relay untill China proves it is complying with the Olympic spirit and stops shooting people.

Les, Los Angeles, USA,

London set the bar, France raised it with a new Olympic record of 3 flame-outs, now England expects every San Franciscan to do their duty... Show China the whole World is watching and condemning their actions in Tibet. Wake up and smell the Tea, Rulers of China!

Paul Goodwin, Luton, UK

I wonder if these activists know why the Qumigxung Valley in Tibet is also known as the ' Red River Valley'. The answer lies in the slaughter of 1,400 Tibetan and Han Chinese soldiers by machine guns and cannons during the twentieth century by Colonel Younghusband's troops who infiltrated Tibet from India. They then took over Lhasa and forced the Dalai Lama to sign the ' Lhasa Convention '. China at that time was too weak to protect herself.

Where were these self appointed judges when the UK supported Pinochet's regime. Where were they when the French put down the riots in Paris. Did they even know that Hitler's nazis and Dalai's predecessor were allies? Of course with the U.S.'s dismal record in Vietnam, Iraq, their citizens should look at their own government first for leadership. China is not perfect, far from it, but she's making progress and lifting hundreds of million of human beings out of poverty.

Cliff, Toronto, Canada