The Al Aqsa Puppet Show April 4th, 2008
Here’s the video, including translation, that has been kicking around in the news lately. It comes from the Hamas operated television station al-Aqsa TV.
Here’s the video, including translation, that has been kicking around in the news lately. It comes from the Hamas operated television station al-Aqsa TV.
Wikileaks has a collection of .flv protest footage. To play these .flv files try VLC or Wimpy.
Cryptome has an AP collection of recent protest photos from Lhasa, New York, Sydney, Kathmandu and New Delhi.
Tibetan exiles in India protest
BBC report on riots in Lhasa
CNN report on the riots
A Japanese report with English voiceover.
Chinese state TV has unexpectedly begun broadcasting some footage of the riots, but downplay it as a “plotted attack carried out by the Dalai Lama clique”, and state “The people of Tibet are incensed by this and strongly condemn these activities which are doomed to failure.”
Lhasa is now under a tight lockdown with soldiers blanketing the city as Chinese troops try to deal with the situation away from foreign media, less than six months out from the Beijing Olympics. The Tibetan government is said to have confirmed 80 deaths, with unconfirmed reports of 100.
Here’s two versions of surveillance video from the bombing of a military recruitment office in Times Square.
Flight LH44 from Munich to Hamburg, on 1 March 2008. Airbus A320 aborts landing but later landed safely on another runway.
A video of the BBC journalist that was kidnapped from Gaza three months ago has surfaced.
Taking a break from Iraq and Afghanistan, here’s an video from Chechnnya of Russian troops being attacked by Muslim separatists.