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China — What and Olympic glow can’t mask

Minky Worden of Human Rights Watch has written one of the best pieces on China for some time, that reflects on many authoritarian regimes. 

An excerpt: Two days before the Opening Ceremonies of the Beijing Games, IOC President Jacques Rogge told Reuters: “We believe the Games are going to move ahead the agenda of the social and human rights as far as possible; the Games are going to be a force for good.”  More than a year later, however, it is clear that awarding the 2008 Games to Beijing actually worsened the human rights climate in China

Click here: What an Olympic glow can’t mask — Minky Worden

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