ASSESSMENTS

China: Age-Old Tactic Prompts New Concerns

Apr 2, 2008 | 19:05 GMT

Summary

As China’s Olympic planners reassess security issues in the wake of uprisings in Tibet, there is a renewed concern over an age-old method of protest, self-immolation. While Chinese security forces have exerted a substantial effort in identifying, infiltrating or blocking organized groups of potential protestors ahead of and during the Olympics, there is little they can do to identify potential individual activists. With millions of spectators and thousands of journalists expected in the Chinese capital in August, Beijing has a deep fear of the political impact created by live pictures of self-immolating protestors broadcast around the world.

Chinese Olympic security planners are reassessing potential threats and disruptions to the upcoming games....

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