Malaysian authorites arrest the wrong people, inflict another blow to human rights on behalf of China
While I never intended for this blog to focus so much on the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, this stuff is just so crazy and hard to believe, I just can’t ignore it.
In yet another ridiculous and offensive incident involving the Olympic torch relay, according to a Yahoo! News article (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080421/ap_on_re_as/olympic_torch), Malaysian offcials arrested a Japanese family for displaying a Tibetan flag and a “Free Tibet” banner along the torch relay route. The article also says a British woman wearing a shirt with “Free Tibet” on it, as well and a Buddhist monk, were also detained.
As if that weren’t enough to understand why I describe this as ridiculous and offensive, what is really absurd is that the Japanese family was physically assaulted by Chinese nationals and while the Japanese family was arrested for their non-violent protest, apparently not one of the violent Chinese nationals was detained or arrested. Thankfully, no one was hurt by the Chinese nationals’ attack. Unfortunately, the same, of course, cannot be said for human rights and humanity.
Yet one more reason to boycott Beijing.
