Alright we all know Beijing is all set to host the Olympics starting next week... Just a few things I saw/heard in the media in the run-up to the Beijing event...
1. China has banned BBC Chinese and its coverage of the olympics.
2. China has imposed visa policies/restrictions on international visitors to the olympics to a level unheard of by any country for any prior olympic event.
3. China has allowed "legal protests" against the olympics at specially dedicated zones only. For those who don't know, a protest by chinese definition is almost always illegal. In other words, a legal protest against Government is practically impossible per Chinese law.
4. After all this, China still believes terrorist or anti-national (i.e. pro-Tibet) strikes are totally possible at Olympic venues. This is their reasoning for escalating security measures to unprecedented levels.
If you read all this, you wonder why in the first place this wretched country was chosen to host the olympics. A country that unleashed force on people it call its own citizens (Tibetans) has no moral right to host any international event of stature. If the communist regime running the show in Beijing had an iota of shame, they would invite the Dalai Lama to attend the olympics and would at the Olympic opening ceremony tender an apology to the Tibetans for all the human right atrocities that China unleashed against them.
2 comments:
This article is completely one-sided and not giving a thought on the other side.
A very good article about the Human Right abuses and the perpetrators of those abuses should not be rewarded to show-case their showmanship.
I wish you would have thought about more heinous violations or rather massacre of Iraqi civilians
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