20 May 2007

Darfur Shadow Over Beijing Olympics
Chennai Centre For China Studies, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Extract: "The campaign against Beijing on the Darfur issue and for the boycott of next year's Olympics if it does not change its policy has been spearheaded by Mia Farrow, the Hollywood actress who is a goodwill Ambassador for the UN's Children Fund. In an article in the 'Wall Street Journal' of March 28, 2007, Mia Farrow wrote: 'China is pouring billions of dollars into Sudan. [...]. And China has used its veto power in the U.N. Security Council to repeatedly obstruct efforts by the U.S. and the U.K. to introduce peacekeepers to curtail the slaughter. As one of the few players whose support is indispensable to Sudan, China has the power to, at the very least, insist that Khartoum accept a robust international peacekeeping force to protect defenseless civilians in Darfur. Beijing is uniquely positioned to put a stop to the slaughter, yet they have so far been unabashed in their refusal to do so. But there is now one thing that China may hold more dear than their unfettered access to Sudanese oil: their successful staging of the 2008 Summer Olympics. That desire may provide a lone point of leverage with a country that has otherwise been impervious to all criticism.'" - b.raman
[The author of the paper, Mr B. Raman, is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India. - ed.]
URL http://www.c3sindia.org/africa/88/darfur-shadow-over-beijing-olympics/
Internet Archive (www.archive.org) - the paper was not archived at the time of this abstract. However, in a few weeks time it will be available at web.archive.org/web/* /www.c3sindia.org - ed.
Link reported by: B. Raman (corde--at--vsnl.com)
* Resource type [news - documents - study - corporate info. - online guide]: Study
* Publisher [academic - business - government - library - NGO - other]: NGO
* Scholarly usefulness [essential - v.useful - useful - interesting - marginal]: Interesting
* External links to the resource [over 3,000 - under 3,000 - under 1,000 - under 300 - under 100 - under 30]: under 30