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Gere, an outspoken supporter of the Tibetan cause and a follower of the Dalai Lama, said there ‘absolutely’ should be a worldwide boycott of the Games if Beijing mishandled protests that official Chinese media say have left seven dead.
"In this situation if the Chinese do not act in the proper way, change their ways, acknowledge what is going on, allow free access to communication, then I think that absolutely we have to boycott the Games,” Gere told BBC radio.
"It would be unconscionable if we continued as if things are hunky dory and everyone's happy. It's impossible," he said.
The biggest protests against Chinese rule in Lhasa since 1989 which coincided with the 49th anniversary on March 10 of a failed uprising that led to the Dalai Lama's departure into exile led to clashes between demonstrators and police on Friday.
Witnesses told AFP tanks and other military vehicles had been deployed, along with police and soldiers, across the city.
Gere said he had not previously supported a boycott, believing the Olympics facilitated ‘the free exchange of communications, of sports, entertainment’.
He said of the protests: "You see this around the world with people who have been repressed, who are on the edge of extinction, and there's nothing left for them to do."
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RatingCivilised world must boycott Beijing Olympics and boycott China. The world must come out openly and support Tibetan cause. They are homeless from their own nation and Chinese rule them illegally. China is the bloody imperialist country, they want to conqure the whole world. Of course one by one. They occupied Tibvet, they occupied Indian Territory and demaning more territories. We must defeat this imperialist China. It is simple and easy, just delink relation with China and boycott them. China will die without food, as much of their foods are even imported. It have only 3% agricultural land, most part are mountains and plateaus. We must act. Long live Tibetan Freedom Movement, Tibet for Tibetans.
China has always been and always be a big bully. It is not enough to boycott Olympics - everything from trade and commerce should be cut down. Ask the software companies and how they suffer from piracy. Do you think China cant stop the piracy once for all ??? They can, but they wont. They are into stealing secrets and technology from nations; grabbing land from neighbors like India; establishing pro communist ideas around, while curtailing the rights of their own folks who to this day are treated like slaves. Now, have they done anything about their currency ??? Why dont major economies devalue their resprective currencies and put them in place?? Mark my words, 10 years from now, China will bully the world and will act like a terrorist nation - seeking to impose their will and strong arm their way around . It is bound to happen, sooner than we think. Think fast, act faster. The perils and the evils are bursting in the seams. China will be to the world what W. Germany was during WWII
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