Michel Collon is a

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writer, and journalist for the magazine of the

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and for his own website Investig’Action.

Biography

Michel Collon started his career in the Belgian weekly ''Solidaire''. He continued his work independently by writing books, making films and an Internet ''newsletter'' broadcast to 40 000 subscribers. He is affiliated with the

, and has organised a network of civil observers in

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and in

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. He took part in the anti-imperialist conference Axis for Peace. Michel Collon denounced the misuse by

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of a photograph that implied Chinese soldiers had dressed up as

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and had provoked the

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. According to the ''

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,'' this photograph was taken from the

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film '' The Touch'', which was filmed in Lhassa between 2001 & 2002. Various commentators consider that Collon has been promoting

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or alternative theories in his presentation of international politics.Marc Jacquemain and Jérôme Jamin
L’histoire que nous faisons – Contre les théories de la manipulation
Éditions du Centre d’Action Laïque, Bruxelles, 2008, pp. 33–34.

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