| p>As part of my ongoing vision to Be Better, Be | | | | of the European Parliament based in Brussels, Belgium |
| More, I have been moved by the recent events and | | | | condemned publicly the "brutal actions of Chinese |
| the current situations surrounding the issue between | | | | security forces against Tibetan demonstrators" |
| China and Tibet, the exiled people from Tibet, China's | | | | So where do you stand on this matter? Do you think |
| appalling human rights record and the bringing | | | | the Chinese government should continue on its |
| together of the worlds greatest athletes, or the | | | | course to resist change to the Worlds call to respect |
| Olympics. The Olympic torch has reached India today | | | | its "moral engagement" to improve human rights, or |
| (17/04/08) prompting Indian authorities to both | | | | should Tibetans, long since exiled from their homes |
| shorten the planned route and to completely secure | | | | should facilitate a better form of protest rather than |
| the Capital, New Delhi in an effort to disrupt | | | | using the Beijing Olympics to highlight their ongoing |
| anti-China demonstrations by exiled Tibetans living in | | | | cause and subsequent goals to return to their homes |
| the country. The Torch has had its journey disrupted | | | | and lifestyles. |
| entirely so far, from its lighting in Greece on March | | | | With allegations from sources such as Amnesty |
| 24th to San Francisco and now India; demonstrators | | | | International claiming that China is using a heavy |
| have created disruption to embarrass the Chinese | | | | handed approach to dissent in an effort to portray a |
| government and to raise awareness towards the | | | | stable country in advance of the games and various |
| exiled Tibetans, including the Dalai Lama, many of | | | | world leaders threatening to boycott the event my |
| whom have made their home in India. | | | | question is that as we live in a world of unrest at this |
| China has accused the demonstrators of trying to | | | | time and It is widely accepted that China's human |
| undermine the Olympics whilst rebutting the IOC | | | | rights record is worsening, Tibet has been invaded by |
| (International Olympic Committee) by stating that | | | | both the British (1904) and the Chinese, who claimed |
| politics should be kept out of the Olympics, "I believe | | | | sovereignty over Tibet at the same time as the |
| IOC officials support the Beijing Olympics" and hope | | | | British Invasion, so that situation is not new either, |
| they continue to "adhere to the Olympic charter of | | | | why was China granted the Olympic games at all? |
| not bringing in any irrelevant political factors," Chinese | | | | I wait to see how big a fiasco the Olympic games will |
| foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told | | | | be, when or if they start. |
| reporters. [1] This came about after some members | | | | [1] dw-world. |