It's odd how little coverage the US media is giving to the ongoing littany of Human Rights abuses associated with the Beijing Olympics Flame of Shame Torch Relay as it runs into serious problems at every stop, as storm troopers, military personnel and local police abuse human rights in the name of protecting China's disgraced Torch as it makes its way around the world. Though almost nothing appeared in America's media on this greek tragedy, the Torch Relay's visit to Australia was an abusive one with local police even doing a bit of smack down on China's well deserving torch attendents.
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Thursday, April 24, 2008
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Should Western Reporters SKIP Beijing Olympics?
The Nationalism sweeping across China, the Political Education Program (torture and abuse) in Tibet's capital are disturbing trends as the Soiled and Spoiled 2008 Beijing Olympics approach. Futher, the ridiculous, radical over reaction of Chinese to Jack Cafferty's honest assessment of China and it's products should give reporters contemplating covering the Summer Olympics serious cause for pause. Secret police tails can be expected, your every move shadowed by a low level government weasel keeping and eye on everything you do, looking for any reason what so ever to detain you, torture you and deport you. God forbid you are accused of divulging State Secrets...a vague term used to sentence people to interminal punishments or years at slave labor. Perhaps Reuters, the AP, CNN, FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS and other major news organizations should simply SKIP THE OLYMPICS, cover the story from the safety of a desk at the home office, or a laptop sitting on your coffee table as you watch the action unfold on TV.
Conference Ponders Beijing Olympics Challenge For Reporters
From AP:
Secret police tails. Reprimands or perhaps even expulsion for writing about topics sensitive for the Chinese Communist Party. Propaganda apparatchiks working overtime to stifle negative news.
These were some of the grim scenarios painted Friday at a Paris conference sponsored by press freedom groups about conditions that foreign reporters might face at the Beijing Olympics this August.
China’s viewpoint was not heard: The two-day meeting’s organizers said Beijing Games officials, the International Olympic Committee, leading sports manufacturers and NBC, which holds the U.S. rights to broadcast the Olympics, declined or did not respond to invitations.
Read also Olympics “Catastrophic” for Chinese Press Freedom and International Conference Calls For Release of Jailed Chinese Journalists from World Association of Newspapers.
China Launching Two Month Torture and Abuse Campaign in Tibet in Preparation For the Beijing TORTURE OLYMPICS
China has announced a two month Political Education Program in Lhasa, Tibet's trouble plagued capital...this is Chinese Government code for torture and abuse, code for violation of human rights on a grand scale, thus making the 2008 Games the Beijing TORTURE Olympics. One has to ask, has the time come for America to arm the Tibetans?
China launches education drive in Lhasa, warns citizens
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Communist Party has launched a two-month political education campaign in Tibet's restive capital Lhasa to attack pro-independence sentiment and support for the Dalai Lama.
China has blamed the unrest across Tibetan areas on a small "clique" of the Dalai Lama pressing for independence and seeking to upset Beijing's preparations for the 2008 Olympics.
Over a month has passed since monk-led protests against government control gave way to deadly anti-Chinese rioting in Lhasa on March 14, but security forces have wrestled with continued unrest there and across other Tibetan areas, and blamed it on the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
In a bid to reinforce control over Lhasa, Party authorities have launched an education drive focused on officials and Party members, the official Tibet Daily reported on Monday.
The campaign to "fight separatism, protect stability and promote development" would focus on "unifying the thinking and cohesive strength of officials and the masses, deepening the struggle against separatism, and counter-attacking the separatist plots of the Dalai clique," said the paper.
Party members and officials would be assessed on their "performance" in the two-month drive, which will include television programmes and organized denunciation sessions.
The Dalai Lama has denounced violence and said he supports Beijing holding the Games in August, but also accused Beijing of perpetrating possible "cultural genocide" in Tibet. China has called him an irrelevant exile.
But a huge paramilitary build-up across Tibetan areas, bans on much travel and tourism there, and now the "mass education" campaign suggest the government itself fears wider sources of discontent, including among officials and Party members.
Over the weekend, Beijing slightly loosened its usually strict ban on protest to allow angry citizens to denounce the Dalai Lama and urge boycotts of businesses accused of supporting him, especially the French supermarket giant Carrefour. Continued...
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