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Press Release 2: VietWill persists with plan for protest at S.F. torch relay |
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For Immediate Release:
VietWill Persists with Plan for Protest at S.F. Torch Relay
Berkeley, CA
7 April 2008
VietWill, an Internet-based activist group, is determined to carry out its protest against China's aggression in Vietnam’s Eastern Sea (South China Sea) on the occasion of the Olympic torch arriving in San Francisco on April 9 to call attention to the Chinese government’s blatant disregard for the lives of Vietnamese fishermen as it strives for world superpower status.
VietWill also plans to use the relay event to speak out against the Chinese government’s politicization of the Olympics in declaring its ownership of Paracel Islands, which China illegally seized from South Vietnam in 1974. In addition, China also illegally took control of a number of the Spratly Islands from Vietnam since 1988, and made egregious claims over 80% of the Eastern Sea as its territorial waters.
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