AN OLYMPIC SHAME...
Did you read that Chinese paramilitary police have killed eight people after opening fire on several hundred Tibetan monks and villagers in bloody violence that will fuel human rights protests as London prepares to host its leg of the Olympic torch relay this weekend?
Witnesses said the clash – in which dozens were wounded – erupted late last night after a government inspection team entered a monastery in the Chinese province of Sichuan trying to confiscate pictures of the Dalai Lama. Officials searched the room of every monk in the Donggu monastery, a sprawling 15th century edifice in Ganzi, southwestern Sichuan, confiscating all mobile phones as well as the pictures. When the inspectors tore up the photographs and threw them on the floor, a 74-year-old monk, identified as Cicheng Danzeng, tried to stop an act seen as a desecration by Tibetans who revere the Dalai Lama as their god king.
Honestly, giving China the Olympics was a huge mistake in the first instance and now as the blood of murdered Tibetans trickles down the street, I wonder who out there has any enthusiams for these bloodied games? I say boycott the lot - the Chinese should NOT be indulged even as they murder at will.
David Vance
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Agreed. The games should be boycotted.
Of course there should be a boycott. Of course there won't be, even if massacres in Tibet become a weekly event.