[HCDX] Tibet Exile Radio Says China Jamming It

["Zacharias Liangas " <greekdx@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tibet Exile Radio Says China Jamming It
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hXfXmEgP_CEoPo9KkTiMbLPQV5ugD
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By DOUG MELLGREN - 1 day ago

OSLO, Norway (AP) - China has intensified its jamming of a Tibetan exile 
radio network's news broadcasts into Tibet during a crackdown on anti-
government protests there, the network charged Wednesday.

The Chinese use radio stations inside Tibet to block the shortwave 
frequency used by the Voice of Tibet, said Oystein Alme, a Norwegian who 
runs the nonprofit foundation's business office in Oslo. The jamming signals 
contain music, drumming and noise.

Most of the Voice of Tibet's 13 staff members work at its main editorial office 
in Dharamsala, India, with Alme handling administration and funding in Oslo. 
The network started broadcasting in 1996, and has daily evening newscasts 
about Tibet in Tibetan and Mandarin Chinese. The station says its mission is 
"to provide a channel for unbiased information and news to the Tibetans 
living under Chinese oppression in Tibet."

Alme said the Chinese government started jamming its broadcasts almost 
as soon as they began but now is using two or three signals instead of one 
to make sure that the signal can't be heard.

"They have been stepping it up in connection with the demonstrations," Alme 
told The Associated Press. "There has been enormous focus on journalists 
not getting free access to Tibet. The other side of the coin is that information 
from the outside is not getting into Tibet."

The Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing had no immediate comment.

Tibetans have been protesting and rioting in Tibet and nearby provinces in 
the longest challenge to China's rule in the Himalayan region since 1989. 
The crackdown by Chinese authorities has focused international attention on 
the country's human-rights record in the run-up to the Beijing Games in 
August.

The jamming also affects those trying to listen in India, Nepal and Europe, 
Alme said.
On the Net:

    * Voice of Tibet: http://www.vot.org
    * Example of jamming: http://www.diantai.org/jamming.html

Also 
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/04/02/europe/EU-GEN-Norway-Voice-of-
Tibet.php

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