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“Genocide Olympics” update
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The Washington Post is reporting that actress Mia Farrow has been admitted into Hong Kong ahead of today’s Olympic torch ceremonies in Hong Kong. As Beijing well knows, Miss farrow has been one of the driving forces in bringing attention to China’s complicity in the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan.
The regime in Beijing must really be feeling the pressure.
From Farrow’s excellent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal from last year, The ‘Genocide Olympics’
China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. Beijing purchases an overwhelming majority of Sudan’s annual oil exports and state-owned China National Petroleum Corp. — an official partner of the upcoming Olympic Games — owns the largest shares in each of Sudan’s two major oil consortia. The Sudanese government uses as much as 80% of proceeds from those sales to fund its brutal Janjaweed proxy militia and purchase their instruments of destruction: bombers, assault helicopters, armored vehicles and small arms, most of them of Chinese manufacture. Airstrips constructed and operated by the Chinese have been used to launch bombing campaigns on villages. And China has used its veto power on the U.N. Security Council to repeatedly obstruct efforts by the U.S. and the U.K. to introduce peacekeepers to curtail the slaughter.
My own piece on China’s enabling of the genocide in Darfur from the Aspen Times here.