links for 2008-04-14
Posted on April 14, 2008 by nolympics
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MEPs have urged EU leaders to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, unless Chinese authorities talk to the Dalai Lama about the situation in Tibet.
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“The current wave of repression occurring in China is not in spite of the Olympic Games, but because of the Olympics,” claims an April report from Amnesty International.
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TamCam exclusive Obama tells Sally Quinn and Tammy Haddad he supports a US boycott of the Olympics ceremony and the Dalai Lama’s request today that the US push China on human rights broadly.
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…but we would all do better to recognize that it is also fully a tool of propaganda, and use that propaganda tool against nations that fail to live up to the standards of freedom and equality which we believe ought be universally implemented.
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Gordon Brown has announced he will not attend the controversial opening ceremony of the Olympics.
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There is no tradition of world leaders attending these ceremonies. In the case of Beijing, however, there was an initial rush to curry favour with an emerging superpower. Now, to China’s dismay, the herd mentality seems to be going in the other direction.
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The guards protecting the Olympic flame had paramilitary training and were chosen by Beijing for their toughness and fitness
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The footballing great Diego Maradona pulled out of the Olympic torch relay in his native Argentina yesterday as the flame ran the gauntlet of fresh protests in Buenos Aires.
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It is not just the recent suppression of Tibet, he said, but issues ranging from pollution, to human rights to freedom of speech and religion, are all hot buttons triggering events such as the attacks on the torch relay participants, he said.
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Police and security staff forced to fend off demonstrators
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The head of the European Parliament invited the Dalai Lama on Wednesday to address the EU legislature on events in Tibet and questioned whether European leaders should attend the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games.
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China überwacht mit mehr als 30.000 Internetpolizisten das Web. Die Zensur funktioniert erstaunlich gut. Der Glaube, das Internet bringe auch in Diktaturen automatisch Freiheit, ist falsch - wie das Beispiel des Dissidenten Hu Jia zeigt.
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Geht es um Menschenrechte, offenbart sich ein Konflikt der Generationen: Die Athleten wollen Zeichen setzen, die Funktionäre lieber schweigen.
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