Tendor in Greece: “IOC – Drop Tibet from the Torch Route”

Posted by buckaroo banzai on Mar 23, 2008 in ioc, Torch Relay | Comments Off

Upon his arrival in Olympia, SFT’s deputy director held a press conference, which included his demand that Tibet be dropped from the Beijing Olympic Torch Route.

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Transcribed from the video:

I demand, on behalf of the Tibetan people that the IOC drop Tibet from China’s torch relay route, immediately and unconditional. Carrying China’s Olympic torch through the country of Tibet, where just now in the past week and even today, we are seeing evidence of the Tibetan discontent. The Tibetan people want independence. Having China taking their olympic torch, blood-stained olympic torch, through Tibet to the top of Mount Everest, would be adding insult to fifty years of injury, that the Chinese government has inflicted on the Tibetan people.

So, if the IOC has any respect for itself, and any intention to uphold its promise to develop freedom around the world, and bring freedom to China, the first thing, and the bare minimum they have to do is drop Tibet from China’s olympic torch relay route, and the second thing I also want the IOC to do is to make sure, to ensure that unfettered media access is allowed in Tibet and China ,not just during the Olympics, but beginning starting now.

Read the previous post on Tendor’s return to Greece.