The Beijing Olympics have seemed destined to be about something €“ anything €“ other than the games. Last year, we were preparing for the €˜Genocide Olympics’. Then the €˜Burmese Junta Olympics’. This year the €˜Oppressed Tibetan People Olympics’. More recently, the prospect of a €˜Robert Mugabe Olympics’ loomed. The usually neglected Uighurs made a late [...]

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