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JUN 20, 2008
Rudd says he’ll go to Beijing
The Canberra Times
Months of speculation over whether Prime Minister Kevin Rudd would attend the Beijing Olympic Games ended yesterday when he announced he would be attending the opening ceremony and ''the first few'' events. The decision brought an immediate rebuke from Greens senator Bob Brown, who said Mr Rudd's ''predictable'' decision raised the question of why he had kept Australia waiting so long. He said the Government had done nothing since the bloodshed in Tibet in March to lift Beijing's suppression of seven million Tibetans.
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JUN 19, 2008
China rights questioned weeks before Olympics
Reuters
China promised to make improvements to human rights ahead of the Olympic Games but its record may have actually deteriorated in the run-up to the events in August, a human rights activist and writer says. In its bid to host the 2008 Olympics, China promised such improvements as greater press freedoms but author Minky Worden says the opposite has been true.
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JUN 19, 2008
Olympics add to security misery in China’s far west
Reuters
Residents and rights groups say the last few months in the lead up to the summer Games, which open on August 8, have been marked by an increasingly heavy crackdown and an ever more onerous public security burden. Local people say they were told to stay at home for the Olympic torch relay, and were even barred from watching the torch's passage from their balconies. Shops were ordered bolted shut, prompting quiet yet cautious complaints from residents long used to tough restrictions.
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JUN 19, 2008
Tight security for Olympic torch in China’s Xinjiang
International Herald Tribune
Heavy security accompanied the Olympic torch through China's restive west, offering a preview of the heavy-handed measures expected when it travels through riot-torn and still sequestered Tibet later in the week. Shops and roads were closed and people were kept off the streets Wednesday in a security clampdown to safeguard the torch as it wound its way through predominantly Muslim Kashgar in China's far western Xinjiang, where separatists have waged a low-level insurgency against Chinese rule.
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JUN 16, 2008
China Urges People in Restive Xinjiang to Watch Olympic Relay at Home
Voice of America
The people of Xinjiang in far western China, including millions of ethnic Uighurs, have been advised to stay home during their Olympic torch relay on Tuesday "for safety reasons."
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