Friday, June 08, 2007

Beijing boycott hot topic on Capitol Hill

What a great idea--there's bound to be a couple more such torch relays surfacing before the Games!

USA Today: June 8, 2007 - Excerpt: Savitt's (director of the Olympic Dream for Darfur campaign) group wants to organize an Olympic-style torch relay from Darfur to Beijing that will take a route through nations that have been touched by the horrors of genocide, such as Rwanda, Germany, Armenia and Bosnia.

"We want to remind China what happens when the world looks away," she testified.
OLYMPIC WATCH: Human Rights in China and Beijing 2008

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