Fed: Olympic flame starts relay =14

AAP General News (Australia)
04-24-2008
Fed: Olympic flame starts relay =14

On Anzac Parade, where the torch had yet to arrive, pro-Chinese and pro-Tibetan supporters
clashed just hundreds of metres from the Australian War Memorial.

Three protesters jumped the barricades and carried Free Tibet signs down the centre
of Anzac Parade - a road flanked with memorials to Australia's war dead.

About 50 pro-China demonstrators followed them and tried to cover the Tibetans and
their signs with large red Chinese flags.

Pandemonium broke out as the two groups yelled at each other until police intervened
and ordered everyone behind the barricades.

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