Archive for March, 2008

More Tibetan Protest Videos Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Wikileaks has a collection of .flv protest footage. To play these .flv files try VLC or Wimpy.

NYC crane collapse aftermath footage Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Tibet Protest Photos Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Cryptome has an AP collection of recent protest photos from Lhasa, New York, Sydney, Kathmandu and New Delhi.

Riots in Tibet Sunday, March 16th, 2008

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.

Times Square bombing CCTV footage Saturday, March 8th, 2008

Here’s two versions of surveillance video from the bombing of a military recruitment office in Times Square.

Lufthansa aborted landing in heavy crosswinds Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Flight LH44 from Munich to Hamburg, on 1 March 2008. Airbus A320 aborts landing but later landed safely on another runway.