Joseph Borawski, Sunday March 30th 2008, 3:51 AM, Global Social Protests Current Event (late)
Tibetan Students Enter U.N. Compound.
This week roughly twenty Tibetan high school students scaled a brick wall which surrounds the United Nations compound in Katmandu and were treated to lunch by the United Nations while given the opportunity to write down their grievances for the benefit of the United Nations officials to read. Spokesman John Brittain was quoted as saying the teenagers “…were very nice,” and “They say down on the grass and chatted and as they were asked to put down their grievances”. This is an interesting form of protest, peaceful invaders, though security around the compound has doubled while the investigation of how they were able to scale the wall goes underway, this is just another example of the mounting pressure the Tibetan people are putting on the world and through the world China. The protests have continued on for about two weeks.
I think that this is quite astonishing; you wouldn’t think that twenty high school students would be able to just climb over a wall into a United Nations compound. Though I think that the reaction the United Nations had was even more amazing, listening to these high school students and treating them to lunch was an appropriate response and certainly one, which wasn’t required. Perhaps there are still a few voices of reason in the world. None of the high school students were arrested, and afterwards the United Nations made sure they were returned to their homes safely. Check it out here:
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