Against the backdrop of tight control of the foreign media's movement in and near Tibet, Chinese citizens voiced anger at what they considered unfair reporting of the unrest by overseas media.
Chinese students abroad set up a Web site, www.anti-cnn.com, to collect "evidence" of "one-sided and untrue" foreign reporting, blasting "the Western Goebbels' Nazi media," the China Daily said.
Communist forces were sent into Tibet in 1950 to "liberate" the region, but resentment and tension has simmered virtually ever since.
Meanwhile, China says a British newspaper editorial comparing the Beijing Olympics to Nazi Germany's 1936 Games is an "insult to the Chinese people."
In a statement issued late on Tuesday, Qin lashed out the Sunday Times, which published an editorial by former Conservative Cabinet minister Michael Portillo linking the two events.
"It is an insult to the Chinese People and an insult to the people of every nation of the world," Qin said in the statement, posted on the ministry's Web site.
"The Olympic torch ... illuminates the dark and despicable psychology of some people," Qin said.
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