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Meredith

Meredith — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

you named it right...and i am puzzled too why did the IOC gave China the green signal to host the BIG event. check the video here while police tackles the protesters in UK.

Yvonne

Yvonne — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

This is real shame, politics is killing sports and spirit for sports too. It has happened for the first time that the light of Olympic torch should be kept off for security reasons. This is the beginning of the end of Olympics.

Prasad

Prasad — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

All the best for Sachin Tendulkar for showing his love for sports, he would be a part of the Beijing Olympic torch relay in Delhi on April 17. He didn’t say a single sentence on the controversy surrounding the protests against Olympics. Go ahead Sachin, we are with us.

Jayaprashanth

Jayaprashanth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Sports and the spirit of sports are certainly not bigger than human being being taken at will. Big deal. The Olympics is just an event. But, can you even replace a life that has been lost and you are only concerned about the Olympics and sports. Sports are just games but here we are dealing with precious human lives and that is not a game, atleast for me. And the Chinese government should be held accountable for this massacre which no one amongst you are even talking about. There is no point having ”sports” in a country whose ROGUE government carries out forced abortion to contain population, kills it’s own citizens who dare to speak out against it’s policies and invades other nation and kills it’s people.

Jayaprashanth

Jayaprashanth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

that was human beings’ lives taken at will

Ramesh

Ramesh — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

@ Prasad from India, Don’t be so happy, Didn’t you see what happened in London and Paris? Tibetans are planning similar protests in India on April 17. Let the world see what would your government do to stop the protesters in New Delhi. Chinese officials are going to India to work out foolproof security for the Olympic torch in Delhi.

Jayaprashanth

Jayaprashanth — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Instead of targetting the Olympics torch, the Tibetans should make sure that sportspersns speak out against the Chinese government’s policies right at the Olympics. I think that would be great way to protest. I really hope that great atheletes come out and speak out, right at the olympics.

Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

I wonder if anyone knows this but the first international torch relay for the Olympic Games was started by Hitler’s propaganda minister Goebbels during the Berlin Olympics in 1936.

At that time, Hitler wanted to sort of legitimize the Nazi movement, something similar the Chine4se are doing today. For them the Olympics is an opportunity to sell and establish the Chinese Superpower.

As they use to say in my history class, “The most important lesson in History is that people never learn from History.”

Meanwhile, the brands of today, the sponsors of the Olympics continue to sully their hands with blood and injustice.

Jayanta

Jayanta — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t you think ideally the torch should be enthusiastically carried by the Tibetans passing through the roof of the world or through the Darfur refugee camps where malnourished urchins run after the Sudanese athlete cheering him?

Why does it sound so shocking now? There is a problem with the country that is hosting the games, the problem is not local but something that strikes deep in to the conscious of mankind all across the globe.

Sympathizing with the athletes is all right because many, especially from the poorer nations like Ethiopia or say even India which is not so poor but has widespread unemployment to make a living out of sports. But it is a small, very small cause to defend when it comes to sacrificing a bigger cause as the liberation of a country from a brutally oppressing country run by sadist communists with scant regards for their own people.

As far as the plight of the Darfur refugees are concerned, I won’t be surprised if China had not heard about it before Spielberg’s act.

As far as your question on why China was allowed to hold the event in the first place then I must tell you that politics take back seat when it comes to making money.

Nicolas

Nicolas — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Agreed that the Chinese are scum rotten but I don’t think the protesters are good as well. They have seized the Olympics that has always stood for global unity to lash out at the Chinese and to propel their political agendas.

Again, when I think about the Tibet issue, how better the protesters can draw the world attention to what is now a forgotten struggle? The Olympics coincide with 50 years of oppression in Tibet.

The sad thing is that an event for a global noble cause is being tarnished but perhaps that’s the only option left. In any case the event has always been used by host governments to propel their ideology and agendas since the days of Hitler.

Anny

Anny — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

The Chinese make themselves look like fools when they say things like they have made the lives of Tibetans better by getting rid of the corrupt Dalai Lama and his government, constructing railroads, bringing in business etc.

That way the Chinese must pay obeisance to the Japanese and the Japanese Empire got China rid of the corrupt Qing government and installing railroads. Why do they continuously seek apology from the Japs for the atrocities they have committed like in Nanking?

It’s the same thing that the Chinese are doing in Tibet. Tibet doesn’t belong to China. It is an illegal occupation of a country.

Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

the best way to protest would be to boycott the sponsors of the event. this will really drive home the point. boycott the sponsors till the next olympics. till then they can sell their stuff in china which of course is the world’s biggest market. but if the EU and US public boycott along with major asian nations it will definitely affect those companies.

Richard

Richard — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0000

Such protests only help in whipping up nationalism amongst the Chinese in China and elsewhere that will further help the regime in carrying out bigger massacres and worse atrocities in Tibet. Has anyone imagined what will happen to the Tibetans after the games get over?

China has not refrained from shooting and killing over a 100 protesters despite the fact that it is desperate not to show its evil face before the Olympics are over. I am afraid that these protests and show of solidarity with the Tibetans now will harm their cause even more. It will boomerang back to them.

My support for Tibet shall continue in the future as it has been in the past.