Is the lack of protest due to the Tanzanian government restrictions, or because Tanzanians like China? I imagine it is more of the former. I also wonder how much the Chinese government was involved. After all, where did the supporters get their 'mini Chinese flags' to wave?

Walter, are the protests due to the Westerners' genuine hate of China (or non-whites) or their genuine care of Tibet? I imagine it is more of the former. I also wonder how much the Central Intelligence Agencies was involved, after all, it has been involved in military training of Tibetans in the past, and it has been doing that all over the world ever since (yeah, "human" rights!). After all, where did the Tibetan protesters get their Tibet flag bandana and large flags to wave? and the income to support their daily protest and plane flights?

This article is factually very inacurrate. From being in Dar at the time of the torch I can tell you the whole thing was total chaos, maybe not a protest but not at all much better. There were soldiers everywhere just shoving onlookers out of the way, and people getting practically overrun by cars. Many people were robbed by pickpockets, and cameras galore were lost. Then they had the torch in the stadium and you had to have a "ticket" to enter. These "tickets" weren't available to buy or get anywhere, even people on U.S. embassy email list had no idea such a thing were necessary. Anyone without a ticket couldn't enter, which meant everyone but some preselected few--coincidentally many of whom were chinese. All in all, lack of protest means nothing in this case, as almost every random citizen who went was either manhandled by soldiers, or almost hit by cars coming through, or pickpocketed in the shoving chaos. A calm protest would have been a welcome change in my book.