东皇殿 ORIENTAL IMPERIAL PALACE

In Canberra on the 24th of April, We are all witnesses. There are so many Aussie supporters who support China as well, they run with us together with our Flags; sing with us together, cheer with us together, even with different languages, but it felt like they can understand us perfectly at that moment. And I should say that was the most peaceful and delightful torch relay ever.

But some of the newspapers had something awful up, which is not helping on anything but distort the true purpose of this torch guard.

There are people involved with violence I don’t deny, we apologize for that, we are normal people too, we have got feelings just like you, and the only reason this violence had happened was because someone used extremely abusive language against China, but it's still not an excuse for being violent, we apologize sincerely.

About torn Australian Flag and other things that have came out on the newspapers, I doubt the authenticity and where it came from.

Chinese always know Australia is one of our best friends, Aussies have put in so much effort to protect the torch, and people are so friendly and understanding. We appreciated everything. Besides this is also the country of which has brought me up since I was 17, it’s almost like my second hometown, I am sure most of the people there have felt the same way as I do, we love Australia, we love Australians as well, we thank you so much for supporting and helping to guard the torch.

If the torn flag thing has really happened and if the guy is not paid or remote controlled to torn the Flag on purposely in front of the media, then he or she mustn’t be well educated enough to judge the rights and wrongs just like our innocent Tibetan siblings, we are so sorry, and we are obligated to educate them how to behave and not to be influenced by bias stories...

But, I’m wondering we have got hundreds of thousands of people in there, waving Australian Flags, and behaving extremely peaceful and friendly, how come these media didn’t see that? I doubt it; I believe most of people read that paper has doubt about it as well.

I have to say that there are people who are extremely annoying in every country and every corner of the world, it’s the matter of your luck to be able to avoid them or not. They have annoyed and upset so many people, not only us Chinese who felt being misunderstood and abused but also Australians and other people who got upset and angry from hearing the untrue stories， they upset so many people and caused so many trouble and misunderstanding between people, aren’t they scared their god will eventually refuse to take there soul? Because I believe there won’t be any good religion of which allows there followers to hurt people’s feeling or cause chaos.

I know changing yourself is much easier than changing how people thought about you, and I don’t deny there are misunderstandings between our siblings at the moment but history will enlighten them and they will eventually realize there’s always us there trying to find the win-win situation for everyone. Trust me I was here being educated by Australian, I haven’t been brain washed. Even now in China We don’t have such a thing called brain washing, we have got our own thoughts and we criticize on our leaders making fun of them just like you do, go and live in China for a while and experience and crowd you will see the real China and understand other than the size of the population we are just all the same.

                                                                                         纪彦孜 Doris Yanzi Ji