![]() ![]() The Olympic flame will once again be lit in an empty stadium on Monday as it starts its truncated journey to Beijing for the Winter Games in February. “Now it is time for the international community, and all people of conscience, to take a stand and boycott Beijing 2022 anything less will be a clear endorsement of China’s genocidal regime,” Tsela Zoksang, an 18-year-old Tibetan-American, one of those detained according to Students for a Free Tibet, was quoted saying in the statement. Tibet has alternated over the centuries between independence and control by China, which says it "peacefully liberated" the rugged plateau in 1951 and brought infrastructure and education to the previously underdeveloped region.īut many exiled Tibetans accuse the central government of religious repression and eroding their culture. The flags that were hung up on scaffolding of the Acropolis, were confiscated by the Greek police. ![]()
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