The Chinese government disputes such figures, saying only 6, households have been leveled and all their owners have been compensated. According to COHRE, 60, homes will be leveled in each of the next two years, bringing the total to , since the city was awarded the games in While the displacement in Beijing has caused a considerable amount of hardship for Chinese citizens, it pales in comparison to the suffering of those living in Darfur, where more than , have died and 2.
Many human rights activists and government officials have voiced their concerns over China's connections to the nation's government, and some have proposed a boycott of the Games.
China currently purchases two-thirds of its oil from Sudan and supplies the country with weapons and military aircraft. Many believe that due to its economic and military ties to the country, China could have easily influenced the Sudanese government to allow a UN peacekeeping force to enter the country, something the Chinese government had failed to do before the Sudanese consented to such measures. On March 10, , protests arose in Tibet on the anniversary of the failed uprising against Chinese rule.
Chinese officials beat, arrested, and killed protesters in Lhasa, Tibet. Riots spread and many buildings were burned. Tibetans say over people were killed, but China claims only 22 people died. Protests by human rights groups disrupted the nation Olympic torch relay in April Activists were protesting China's human rights policies and the violent crackdown by Chinese police on protests by ethnic Tibetans and Buddhist monks in Lhasa, Tibet.
In Istanbul, London, Paris, San Francisco, and New Delhi protesters chased torch bearers, attempted to extinguish the torch, and clashed with police, which resulted in dozens of arrests.
The torch was guarded by 3, policemen in Paris, but it was extinguished several times and the designated route was cut short to prevent further aggression. Badar-Uugan Enkhbat in boxing and Tuvshinbayar Naidan in judo were the first athletes from Mongolia to win a gold medal at the Olympic Games; just like Bahrain with Rachid Ramzy in athletics.
There were many memorable champions, but it was Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt who stole the headlines. Phenomenal U. The 10km swimming marathon and BMX. In , in the m final, Rebecca Adlington improved on the previous time by more than two seconds, with a new time of In Beijing, almost 50 years separated the oldest from the youngest athlete: Japanese horse rider Hiroshi Hoketsu took part in his third Olympic Games at the age of 67, whilst Cameroon swimmer, Antoinette Joyce Guedia Mouafo participated in the Games for the first time at the tender age of Thirty-seven venues, six of which were outside Beijing, hosted the competitions: namely Hong Kong for the equestrian events and Qingdao for the sailing; and Tianjin, Shanghai, Qinhuangdao and Shenyang for the football matches.
Results Highlights. Originals Donate Now. For example, Ye Guozhu, a year-old housing rights activist, remains in prison despite having completed his four-year prison sentence in July Evictions and demolitions for Olympics-related infrastructure.
During the incident in question, Ni was resisting the demolition of her own home when she was hit on the head with a brick and dragged to the ground. Those citizens include: Yang Chunlin , a land rights activist from Heilongjiang province. Yang was arrested in July for his involvement in a petition against illegal land seizures by officials and for writing essays denouncing official wrongdoings.
His wife and fellow activist Zeng Jinyan has been under house arrest in Beijing since May 17, , along with their baby daughter, Qianci. Huang Qi , a veteran dissident and founder of www. Huang was detained on June 10, in Chengdu while investigating allegations that shoddy construction had contributed to the collapse of schools in the March 12 Sichuan earthquake.
Teng Biao , one of several Beijing lawyers, including Zhang Jiankang and Jiang Tianyong, who lost their licenses to practice law as an official reprisal for publicly offering to defend Tibetan suspects arrested in the wake of the Lhasa riots in March.
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