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Chinese students living overseas have launched an "anti-CNN
website" aimed at exposing the Western media's alleged biased
coverage of unrest in Tibet.
The website, www.anti-cnn.com, has posted an
open letter asking all Chinese to rise up against the "Western
Goebbels' Nazi media", a reference to German dictator Adolf
Hitler's propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, the China Daily
reported on Wednesday said.
The letter could not be found on the website
Wednesday, but it was posted on a number of online forums for
overseas Chinese.
"The Chinese nation, peace-loving, refined
and cultivated, has long swallowed humiliation and submitted to
insults. It can no longer be a silent lamb," the letter said.
The website brands CNN as the world's
"leader of liars," exposing what it calls errors in
reporting by the US news channel and other Western news outlets,
including British and German newspapers and the BBC.
The letter asks all Chinese to send protest
letters, faxes and emails to Western media organizations asking them
to apologize for false reports on Tibet.
The unrest against Beijing's rule of the
Himalayan region began on March 14 and soon spilled out to other
parts of the country with Tibetan populations.
Tibet's government-in-exile says 140 people have
been killed in the unrest over the past two weeks, while China says
there have been 20 deaths.
The launch of the website comes at a time of
increased verbal attacks against foreign media in China.
Authorities have strongly criticized Western
media for its alleged biased coverage of the riots in Tibet, and the
criticism has been widely covered in the Chinese press.
But foreign reporters are still barred from
going to Tibet or the neighboring affected provinces, save for a
small group of Western media going on an organised government trip
to the Himalayan region on Wednesday.
-- AFP
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