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  • Re: Sugababes for Tibet - Human Rights

    Tibetans have been protesting since 1950. They have given their lives in protest by the thousands and tens of thousands. They have sat in the snow and rain outside embassies for 60 years. They have refrained from food and drink. Doused themselves in petrol and set themselves alight. Cried out in the...
    Posted to Random chat (Forum) by Pyrrha on 04-21-2008

  • Re: Sugababes for Tibet - Human Rights

    Amnesty says the IOC is now complicit in the human rights abuses : http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=17708 I hope we can all distinguish between free societies and military dictatorships. The argument that all coutries have perpetrated abuses in the past is a relativist cop-out. The fact...
    Posted to Random chat (Forum) by Pyrrha on 04-17-2008

  • Re: Sugababes for Tibet - Human Rights

    Here's an eloquent response to the points you raise in an article by Jamyang Norbu: Countries have always boycotted the Olympics when it was in their political interests to do so. America and the West boycotted the Moscow Olympics when the Russians invaded Afghanistan. Then the Soviet bloc states...
    Posted to Random chat (Forum) by Pyrrha on 04-15-2008

  • Re: Sugababes for Tibet - Human Rights

    OK - let's stop wars!! Let's withdraw the People's Liberation Army from Tibet and free all the political prisoners from Drapchi Prison and the lao gai and stop gunning down schoolgirls like Lhundup Tso. Great idea!! The sad fact. though, is that the Chinese Communist Party is determned to...
    Posted to Random chat (Forum) by Pyrrha on 04-09-2008

  • Re: Sugababes for Tibet - Human Rights

    You're dead right... The Olympic flame wasn't part of the ancient games, and the torch relay didn't become a fixture in the modern Olympics until the 1936 Berlin Games, when it was part of the Nazi pageantry that promoted Hitler's beliefs of Aryan supremacy in the world of sports. That...
    Posted to Random chat (Forum) by Pyrrha on 04-09-2008
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