China Warns Students in London
Chinese student leaders in London, heading protests against the military crackdown in Beijing, were quoted Sunday as saying the Chinese Embassy is waging a campaign of intimidation against them.
The embassy was telephoning students to warn: “Don’t think we don’t care what happens in London,” the students said in interviews with Britain’s national news agency, the Press Assn.
More than two-thirds of the estimated 3,500 Chinese students in Britain have taken part in rallies and marches outside the embassy in London and the consulate in the northern English city of Manchester to protest the killing of student-led demonstrators in Beijing June 4.
An estimated 5,000 people marched to the embassy Sunday behind a banner saying “Condemn the Murderous Government in China” and shouting “Long live freedom!”
Students say their marches have been filmed by Chinese diplomats, and the embassy has contacted the student leaders with direct warnings about the protests.
“We are still in charge in London,” the students quoted the diplomats as saying. “We know everything you have done. We know everybody you have had contact with.”
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