The protests should intensify, only hope that no one gets killed or injured. You saw how the Nepalese govt. treated the peaceful protestors? carrying away th emonks forcefully? Those monks would be handed to the Chinese, and they will never see the day light again in their life.
Shame on Nepal, a Hindu country that also has a sizable buddhist population.
Baichung being a fellow budhdist with the brand of budhdism similar to Tibetans , sympathises with them. In fact, the Karmapa resides in Sikkim, so he is right to protest.
Only wish that the educated and well-aware Indian superstar population, spoke more intelligently.
This should be the opportunity for some political parties in India to show their support for the Tinet cause as well. But alas! all they can think about is 'Ayodhya' and trains to Pakistan.
Aamir is pragmatic. Being a some-level sportsperson himself in his youth, he understands how the Olympic are anticipated for 4 years by the sportsmen.
At the same time, it was also expected that China should have to face immense drama, by hosting the event. Tibetans and Tibetan supporters are absolutely right to use the occassion to protest. The monstrous communist govt. of China does not recognise any form of human rights. They have just learnt about capitalism, and since the past 2 decades have been inhumanely using their poor populace to be the 'cheap manufacturer' of the world.
The Chinese govt. should have to face humiliation. All their comments are typical rhetoric, just like those that come out of N. Korea.
Kiran Bedi, the ex-super cop has also refused to carry the torch, And there is a news that Rahul Gandhi would be invited to carry the torch.
Olympics are absolutely non-political and politicians are all over the world should be kept away from this sporting event. But politicians become involved in every sport nnd do not tolerate if anything happens without their being at the helm. Once one of our ex-Presidents (perhaps Venktaraman) had said whatever worst is happening in world (i.e. politics) is reported on the first page and whatever best is happening (i.e. sports) is reported on the last page.
Aw! C'mon... let Aamir & Chote Nawab too carry torches.. Arre Bhai! if not original Olympic torches we can provide them with EVERREADY torches ... Torch haath mey pakkad kar bhagna hi hai na? After the event they can call a press conference to breathlessly relate how thrilled they were to run in the spirit of sportsmanship. To add glamour to the event we can involve Sushmita Sen. To add stupidity to the show, invite SRK. Or get that dumbo - aapka chokra from Virar. Big B? Na, Na.Na. No way! Usko bulaya toh Chota B will tag along.Then will come Mrs. Chota B ( in knee high Leather boots) and Mrs. Big B. Too many B's at the show, Not good Eh? ... Arre bhai, kaun layega battery EverReady torch ke liye? Na bhoolna ji..
Just because 70 plus countries across the world ar in the olympics, olympics has become haven for political issues. It's alright if olympics is used to promote human right issues, economic issues, etc.. But olympics should not be ordered by politicians in proving a country's worth in terms of military power or taking another country's land.
Athletes shud not be subjected to politics and be deprived of their hard work in training to qualify for a huge sporting event, once in four years.
Nothing happened in 1980 moscow olympics when U.S boycotted it, this totally did not solve problems between soviets and afghanistan.
Later soviets boycotted the 1984 los angeles olympics, plainly as a revenge for u.s boycotiing the moscow olympics.
No political conflict can be solved just by boycotting a minor sporting event thts held only once in four years.
Thts a total waste of money, time, and energy of hundreds of athletes, sports enthusiaists, sports organization, and the city to spend so much on olympics.
I have read Aamir's letter on his blog and responded to it, so I need not repeat that here again. As for Saif Ali Khan, I'm thoroughly appalled at the logic of his decision 'the Indian government is not against it, why should I?' It's a democracy in India, for god's sake. People constitute the government and people can go against the government if need be. It's just childish to think that if the government is not doing any good job, I will also stop doing it. I'm really disappointed by Saif.. I actually saw him wearing a Free Tibet shirt a while back on the Parikrama tour. I expected much better from him. When the two run with the torch next week, I will be out there to witness if they really consider human rights important or if they have just sold out to China, just like our government.
RE:Disappointed!
by Terence on Apr 05, 2008 08:47 PM
Baichung did not carry torch purely for personal reason. He mentioned on CNN-IBN, tht he is not doing it for a sports organization or a human rights organization, or anything like tht.
Baichung has his own ideals and thoughts on this tibet-china issue, and he made a decision not to support anything relating to china.
Anyways, baichung has nothing to do w/olympics and he never has been in olympics. His soccer team and him ar only famous in india, and especially in bengal and soccer loving fans.
So he has nothing to do w.sports organization or any organizaiton like he said, and thts the reason behind him not carryin the torch.
So far indian olympic association seems to care about glamour and publicity, and coke provided tht w.aamir khan. Its his reason to carry or not carry the torch, despite his fans have been pestering him not to carry the torch. They shud understand, tht he is coke ambassador and since coke is one of the leading sponsor of olympics.
Also, in his p.o.v he speaks the same as people want olympics not be ruled by politics and staging the country's power in any way. It's a sporting event, held once evry four years and it's huge and ther to celebrate diverse talents in all sports. Tht's the huge thing abt olympics, there ar 31 sports w. 100 plus athletes in each event.
Boycotting olymic games is too late already, since majority of athletes have competed in olympic qualifying competitions in beginning of 2007, and still now few sports ar hosting olympic qualifyin tournaments.
These athletes have alrdy trained and competed to qualify in 2007, and applications of olympics has started b.f the china-tibet issue surfacd on the news and things got worse between china and tibet.
So boycottin games is useless, just based on the reason tht majority of athletes have finished qualifyin for olympics and now they ar only practising b.f august.
No country has boycotted the games, European union has also ruled out boycotting games. (http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/23813004/)
But ther are people i.e political authorities of czech republic, germany, france have decided to only boycott opening ceremony. At the same time, they stated the absence of the politicians from some countries who decided to boycott opening ceremony, shud not be seen as a threat to the games.
Otherwise, boycotting olympics will not hurt china politically, only it will hurt the chinese sports enthusiasts and comittee who has spent millions to build the infrastructure for the olympics.
Anways, chinese-tibet issue will not solve, b.c of boycotting some sports event. This was proved in 1980 moscow olympics.
