Despite its reputation for mercilessly repressing dissent among its own people, China has chosen the slogan "One World, One Dream" for the games, hoping, apparently, that few remember the blood-soaked nightmare of China's 1989 massacre of student protesters in Tiananmen Square—but many do remember.
Smith College professor Eric Reeves, the leading historian of the Darfur genocide, calls the Beijing Olympics "China's post--Tiananmen Square coming-out party. They are counting on the international community having forgiven and forgotten."
Now, however, faced with evidence of the beginning of an international campaign to shame it for its deep complicity in the holocaust in Darfur, China in all its might is deeply worried by the organizing of boycotts of the games.
Despite its reputation for mercilessly repressing dissent among its own people, China has chosen the slogan "One World, One Dream" for the games, hoping, apparently, that few remember the blood-soaked nightmare of China's 1989 massacre of student protesters in Tiananmen Square—but many do remember.
lexa167 4 years ago
Smith College professor Eric Reeves, the leading historian of the Darfur genocide, calls the Beijing Olympics "China's post--Tiananmen Square coming-out party. They are counting on the international community having forgiven and forgotten."
Now, however, faced with evidence of the beginning of an international campaign to shame it for its deep complicity in the holocaust in Darfur, China in all its might is deeply worried by the organizing of boycotts of the games.
lexa167 4 years ago