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Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:22:32 EDT 10 Mario Vazquez Rana, president of the Association of National Olympic Committees, warned athletes not to engage in political protests at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games or risk serious sanctions. http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html …‘I hope our political allies, the governments, will not use the Games as a pretext to launch boycotts or try to obtain any kind of political benefits out of this,’ he said. ‘The Games should be free of any political interference.’… Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET IOC President Jacques Rogge Expresses Concern over Violence in Tibet, By Nicholas Paphitis http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html … The IOC has already expressed the hope that this conflict should be resolved peacefully as soon as possible. Violence for whatever reason is contrary to the Olympic values and spirit…Awarding the Olympic Games to the most populous country in the world will open up one fifth of mankind to Olympism… Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET Tibet Deaths list totally fake – China, by AFP http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html …Respected columnist and former senior Indian Intelligence officer, B Raman, commented on March 21 that "on the basis of available evidence, it was possible to assess with a reasonable measure of conviction" that the initial uprising in Lhasa on March 14 "had been pre-planned and well orchestrated"… Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET London Police Battle Protesters on Olympic Torch Relay, by AFP http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html … State-controlled media referred to a list of 40 victims it said the Tibetan government-in-exile distributed two weeks ago, saying at least one person had been found alive and the identities of 35 others were impossible to confirm… Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET Tibet, the 'Great Game' and the CIA, by Richard M Bennett http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html …Respected columnist and former senior Indian Intelligence officer, B Raman, commented on March 21 that "on the basis of available evidence, it was possible to assess with a reasonable measure of conviction" that the initial uprising in Lhasa on March 14 "had been pre-planned and well orchestrated"… Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET Endgame for the Dalai Lama: Black Hat Sect Dismantling Power Base, by Yoichi Shimatsu http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html … In this negative light, the rallies by the Gelugpa monks seemed a desperate bid to reassert the Dalai Lama’s authority by accusing their Tibetan rivals of being “collaborators” and presenting themselves as the “resistance.”… Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET German Politician Compares Dalai Lama to Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini, By Björn Hengst http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html …In recent decades, the international community has not had many good experiences with religious leaders who are forced into politics as representatives of opposition movements in society. I remember, for example, Khomeini… Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET Three dead in Indian 'Tibet' bomb, By BBC News http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html …The owner of the house, in the town of Siliguri, said that it was rented by a Tibetan exile who said he was using it in connection with a computer business. But the police maintained that after the blast they recovered a large quantity of explosives and detonators… Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET Some very interesting discussions posted by Americans and Chinese about an article published by Washington Post, which focuses on how the lack economic opportunity for Tibetans has fueled the unrest there http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html http://ourvoice.de/Our%20Voice/News.html … What the article failed to mention is that the disparity in income had not been a deliberate government policy to discriminate against Tibetans in favor of Han Chinese… China's efforts to modernize Tibet has brought frequent accusations of "cultural genocide" by the West. These critics simply could not acknowledge that Tibetans want to improve their material well beings just like every body else. The problem is in the age of globalization, modernization inevitably leads to changes in culture and life-styles that may conflict with traditional values. This not only happens in Tibet, but even far more noticeably so in China proper… Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET t accusations of "cultural genocide" by the West. These critics simply could not acknowledge that Tibetans want to improve their material well beings just like every body else. The problem is in the age of globalization, modernization inevitably leads to changes in culture and life-styles that may conflict with traditional values. This not only happens in Tibet, but even far more noticeably so in China proper… Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:16:45 CET