number of deaths. the NGO crusaders are absent. violence speaks.
this one china concept is humbug. india must reject it for our own
security. we need to start questioning china's rights not just over
tibet and taiwan but also that uighar province - (xinghi?)
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"It is not too late to use the threat of boycotting the Olympics as a weapon, as a way to demand that, at the very least, they stop the killing and begin following the provisions of the Autonomous Region's constitution to the letter--especially where personal freedoms are concerned.
Beijing won't give in? Boycotts in general don't work? Well, I say to naysayers, we will never know if we don't try. We have nothing to lose if we do try--and the Chinese and Tibetan people have so much to gain!
We shouldn't be mixing sports and politics? We shouldn't deprive the world of the great celebration that is the Olympics? Fine, I say to our sporting friends. But we must not reverse our roles, either. It is the Chinese who are ruining the celebration. They are the ones flouting the Olympian principles. They are the ones who will be hoisting the Olympic flame atop Mount Everest and, along the way, climbing over the bodies of assassinated men of peace and prayer.
And finally, it is because of the butchers of Tiananmen and Tibet that next August, the athletes competing for medals--athletes who have been transfused, juiced up, transformed into near-robots--will be running, wrestling and parading in stadiums stained with blood.
There is still time to salvage it all: sports, honor and lives.
There is still time to take the same risk Barack Obama did, to remind the Chinese of the possibility--merely the possibility--of a boycott, to say at once "yes" to Olympic ideals and "no" to the Games of Shame.
The clock is ticking."
The point is simple. Only commie countries like China and North Korea restrict access to journalists. Even if journalist are allowed...they have controlled access and monitored by minders. WHy do these crap journalists like N. Ram ignore this simple fact? They talk of press freedom in India but praise regimes which do not allow it in countries which are "ideologically favorable" like China, Cuba and North Korea. Enough is enough!
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