Media News - Wednesday, March 25, 2009
YouTube confirms website blocked in China
YouTube confirmed on Tuesday its website is being blocked in China, although the California firm offered no explanation for why Chinese authorities were barring access to the popular video-sharing service. The YouTube blockage came as government officials there publicly challenged the authenticity of a video that purports to show police beating to death a pro-Tibet demonstrator last year. China's official Xinhua News Agency quoted an unidentified government source saying supporters of the Dalai Lama were 'fabricating lies' by doctoring video to 'deceive the international community.' Footage of Chinese troops apparently beating Tibetans last year in and near Lhasa following the deadly riots has appeared on YouTube in recent days. The source, date and location of the footage, posted by a Tibetan exile group, could not be independently confirmed. The video shows hundreds of uniformed Chinese soldiers running through a Tibetan monastery, some of them beating a man with batons. In another scene, uniformed soldiers kick, drag and beat several men and women who are lying on the ground, some of them with their hands bound behind their backs. The narrator of the video said the violence was part of China's crackdown following anti-Chinese unrest in the Tibetan capital March 14, 2008, which Beijing says led to the deaths of 21 people by rioters. (AFP)
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