Tuesday 14 August 2007

Genocidal torch relay

There is a torch relay going on through places that have been victims of genocide by China.

I enjoy watching the Olympics but I'm also aware of how they are used by the host country to showcase what they would like other people to think that country is all about. In the case of China, the human rights violations are very much a part of the picture, including against my own minority—evangelical Christians. So if the Olympics are used to highlight some of these abuses, that is right and proper and has a certain poetic justice about it.

2 comments:

Faithful 2 U said...

Interesting blog!

Anonymous said...

So can you buy a genocidal torch on ebay?
Why didn't we do this for Sydney? Closest we got was Midnight Oil wearing some black armband t-shirts for the closing ceremony