British man with ‘Taiwan’ tattoo on forehead beaten by 10 Chinese in Cambodia

Taiwan News
Date: 2018/05/27
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A British man was savagely beaten by nearly a dozen Chinese men in a small city in Cambodia when they discovered he had “Taiwan” tattooed on his forehead and he refused to recognize their claim that the country is part of China.

While on vacation in Cambodia, a British ex-pat who has lived in Taiwan for 14 years and goes by the name “Paul,” at around 11 p.m. on Saturday evening (May 27) took a seat at a bar in Sihanoukville Square in the coastal Cambodian city of Sihanoukville. When he ordered a drink and took off his hat, a large group of Chinese men sitting nearby, who he believed to be overseas workers, noticed that the traditional Chinese characters for  “Taiwan” (臺灣) were tattooed on his forehead.

One of the Chinese men then shouted in Mandarin “Taiwan, China! In response, Paul retorted “Taiwan, Taiwan!” Paul says that they then “went insane, grabbed poles and started attacking me.”

He says that at least 10 Chinese men savagely beat him, demanding that he say that Taiwan is part of China, as hundreds of bystanders watched. Refusing to refer to Taiwan as part of China, but fearing for his life, Paul said in Mandarin, “OK, you think Taiwan is China I’ll say Taiwan is China, I just want to leave.”
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