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Article: Greenpeace anti-nuclear salvo fired at Chinese
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 16, 1995
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TERESA POOLE
Peking
Eight foreign Greenpeace activists are expected to be deported
to Hong Kong today after Chinese police swooped on an anti-nuclear
protest in Tiananmen Square. It was the environmental group's first
action in China and, on the 50th anniversary of the end of the
Second World War, was designed to spotlight the country's
nuclear-test programme.
Two dozen uniformed and plainclothes officers descended on the
group within a minute of them unfurling a 15ft banner in Chinese
and English reading "Stop All Nuclear Testing". The protest took
place at one of the most sensitive spots in Peking, just by the
huge portrait of Mao Tse-tung at the north end of the vast square,
where ...