Olympic torch relay: 'thugs' blasted
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“。。。。One woman called Marie said she was mobbed by screaming Chinese students as she tried to watch the relay go past. She had to be rescued and escorted away by police.
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Alistair Paterson, 52, from Lake George outside Canberra, said he was standing with his seven-year-old daughter on Limestone Avenue with an older couple, their teenage son and two other youngwomen when they were attacked by a group of about 50 people drapedin Chinese flags.
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Mr Paterson said he was holding a "Free Tibet" banner and the older couple also had a pro-Tibet placard, which angered the groupas it ran along the crowd side of the barrier.
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! E' @- n6 K% D8 r"I got a flying kick in the leg, another bloke was hit in the head with a stick with a Chinese flag attached to it and our banners were torn down," Mr Paterson said.
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j A# y# L; Q3 {3 V"When I looked around there were three or four guys who I canonly assume were Chinese who wanted to fight me.
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"This gang of thugs rolled right through us and we had kids with us. My daughter was still shaking an hour later and is very quiet even now.
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. `( L' y, S2 i- U4 N; B4 ]2 u( q"I don't normally get angry but I am so angry right now."
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* G9 g9 F% K# C5 Q, i- xMr Paterson said he had wanted to show his daughter the meaning of peaceful demonstration.
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"We were just a small group of people basically exercising our right, our responsibility to say 'We don't think this is correct',"he said.
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"I have heard the police on the radio saying the security was great. Maybe for the torch it was. We told police what had happenedto us and they just said 'We know what is going on'."
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: M) e* h7 [& nAnother pro-Tibet protester, Marion Vecourcay, said she felt frightened and threatened by the Chinese demonstrators.
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. g+ w- c# M7 I% D/ I& B"They mobbed the sign, they were really aggressive, insulting and swearing," she said.
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1 R! p# U2 P7 P5 l& n5 }"They said we have no right to be here but I live up the street.
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"It was just a mob mentality."
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