I Can't Be Holding On to What You Got, When All You Got is Hurt
Forget yesterday's post about Beijing hosting the first "Green Olympics". NY Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof presents what he believes may be a more apt title for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad.
The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation. Instead, China’s leaders are tarnishing their own Olympiad by abetting genocide in Darfur and in effect undermining the U.N. military deployment there. The result is a growing international campaign to brand these “The Genocide Olympics.”
The Beijing Olympics this summer were supposed to be China’s coming-out party, celebrating the end of nearly two centuries of weakness, poverty and humiliation. Instead, China’s leaders are tarnishing their own Olympiad by abetting genocide in Darfur and in effect undermining the U.N. military deployment there. The result is a growing international campaign to brand these “The Genocide Olympics.”
Labels: 2008 Beijing Olympics, China, New York Times, Nicholas Kristof
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