From the daily mail:
“French President Nicholas Sarkozy will boycott the opening of the Beijing Olympics unless China opens dialogue with the Dalai Lama and frees political prisoners, a French minister told Le Monde today.
Secretary of State for Human Rights Rama Yade said these conditions were “indispensable” for Sarkozy to attend the opening of the Games.
His warning comes as Government security forces fired on crowds of civilians, killing at least eight people in the Tibetan area of western China.
Xinhua news agency said rioters attacked government offices in Garze, Sichuan province, on Thursday, leaving one official hurt and others seriously injured.
Sarkozy is set to announce his decision on the boycott after consulting with his European counterparts and will be speaking as current president of the European Union.
“Nevertheless, three conditions are indispensable for him to go: an end to violence against the population and the release of political prisoners, light to be shed on the events in Tibet and the opening of dialogue with the Dalai Lama,” Tibet’s spiritual leader, Ms Yade said.
France calls on China to undertake “a really constructive dialogue with the Dalai Lama”.
“These discussions should be about the recognition of Tibetan autonomy and the spiritual, religious and cultural identity of Tibetans,” she added.
The French minister said 132 Tibetan monks had been arrested last year for political reasons.
“At the moment, China practises a politics of…
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IF a country’s president can be so biased, that is a real shame for the whole country.
If he did not show up in Beijing, that is the mistake of his legacy and so is the mistake for France-China relationship.
IF the west still think they can bully China the same way as they used to for the past century, they are making a big mistake
Who cares. No loss to Chinese.
The French President is a playboy who is facing critism from his voters for not paying attention to the economy and his people in French. Now he is just detouring people’s attention.
It was the same who ordered the riot police and paramilitary force into various French cities in November 2005 to crackdown the Muselim rioters. He has no moral ground to criticize the Chinese.
Shame on French Politicans. All are liars. Look and think Paris Police how to handle Black people protest a couple of years ago
Comment by George 04.05.08 @ 7:52 pmIt is such a shame that the Chinese Communist dictatorship is carrying on a genocide in Tibet while the world keeps appeasing it. In the 1930s, the world had erred similarly, when it sought to appease the Nazi government in Germany while it was targetting Jews. The world had sought to do business with Nazi Germany since the world was reeling under recession and Germany had embarked on a great fiscal expansion. The Nazis kept increasing their military and continued with their oppression of the jews. The Chinese communist dictatorship is doing the same. It is doing business with the world, increasing its military strength, destroying the peaceful non-violent Tibetan Buddhist culture. The world remained a mute spectator when the independent nation of Tibet was invaded and captured by Communist China. To make the Nazis pay for their crimes, there were the Nuremburg trials, to make Slobodan Milosevic pay for his crimes against humanity, he was tried in the International court of Justice, Saddam Hussein was tried for his poison gas and nerve agent bombing of the Iraqi village in North Iraq and executed, why can the world not atleast deplore the communist dictatorship of China for its’ murder of hundreds of innocent Tibetan Buddhist civilians and monks? Why does the world not feel the pain when a Tibetan child bleeds from the bullter fired by the sub-automatic machine gun of a Chinese soldier? Why does the world not feel the pain of hundreds of Tibetans who bear the icy cold of the Himalayas just to escape to neighbouring India for shelter to be free from the communist cruelties in Tibet? How long will the world permit the Chinese to carry out their oppressive rule in Tibet? Is there one-law for the world, and another law for China? Should the world obey human rights, while China is given a free hand to do what it pleases? To send a strong message to China, world leaders must refuse to attend the Olympics, and nations must seriously think of boycotting the Beijing Olympics. There cannot be a greater oxymoron then China & the Olympics! Indeed the world must also scrutinize Communist China blatant breaking of all international rules regarding the proliferation of nuclear weapons and missile delivery systems which the belligerent rogue Chinese communist state has given to the Islamic republic of Pakistan. These Chinese communist criminals are a sourge on humanity, since they have not only committed grave human rights’ abuses in Tibet, but banned religion and proliferated weapons of mass destruction. How long will the world remain silent?
Comment by Vishal Sharma 04.05.08 @ 9:36 pmNicholas Sarkozy ? who is he? haha
maybe he takes himself too seriously
the earth turns around sans somebody , I think
I think the president of france is a terrorist who take the olympics games as a hostage!!! shame on the guy and shame on your so called human rights!!! just think the result of warthirsty presidents of the us and france !!howmany civil and innocentpeople were killed in iraq and afganistan!!!now , you make a rally trying to bully china . just a dream!! all chinese including tibetans will be tougher and tougher for your provocation! come on , if you like . and boycott if you wanna . do not there try to be a second some animal , just pretent to do something with it’s mouth . shame
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