China’s messed up priorities
China has condemned a protest over Tibet at the Olympic torch lighting ceremony in Greece on Monday.
In the first reaction from Beijing, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said any attempt to disrupt the torch relay for the Olympic Games was shameful.
During the ceremony, campaigners broke through police lines and unfurled a Tibetan flag before being dragged away.
Meanwhile there are reports of more violence in and around Tibet, and the police are continuing to make arrests.
Let’s see, what’s more “shameful”? Protesters nonviolenly upholding human rights that are supposedly part of the Olympic spirit? Or the Olympic host country carrying out mass arrests and killings less than five months before the start of the Games?
It sounds like the Chinese government just doesn’t get it… or else it values Tibetan lives less than its international image.
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URGENT CALL TO ALL OLYMPIC COMPETITORS:
I would request that all Olympic athletes rapidly develop and make use of networks of communication to pass the word: Make a personal choice to not participate in the Beijing Olympics.
If nobody goes, all the glamor, all the glory for the hideously abusive government in China will evaporate. Attention will be drawn dramatically to the Tibet issue. This personal, grassroots boycott will cost nothing, involve no violence, and leave all the governments and corporations wondering at the power and integrity of the statemant this group of young participants from aroung the world is making! Please consider.
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