Japanese temple refuses to host Olympic torch

[babylonsister]

Japanese temple refuses to host Olympic torch
AFP - 1 hour 5 minutes ago


TOKYO (AFP) - - Monks at an ancient Japanese Buddhist temple on Friday pulled out of hosting a ceremony for the protest-marred Olympic torch relay because of China's crackdown in Tibet.

Organisers of the Japanese leg of the global tour have been forced to change the starting point after Zenkoji Temple said it would no longer welcome the torch, which has been dogged by protests since it was lit in Greece last month.

"Tibetan religious leaders stood up but (China) is cracking down on them," Shinsho Wakaomi, a senior official at the temple, told a press conference in the city of Nagano, host of the 1998 Winter Olympics.

The temple, which rang bells for the opening ceremonies for the 1998 Nagano Games as well as for the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics, had "fondly accepted" an invitation last year to host the ceremony on April 26, another temple official told AFP.

"But the situation has changed," the official said. "Monks here are very concerned" about what happened in Tibet.

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http://sg.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080418/twl-china-unrest-tibet-rights-japan-oly-920821f.html

[sam sarrha]

1. it isnt about them "standing up" its about this 1.2mil Genocide, now r going after the Fetus's,Link

http://dolphinarium.blogspot.com/2008/03/dispatches-tonight-torture-and-mobile.html
snip..."....Apparently they cut the fallopian tubes and stitched them up. It was agonisingly painful. They didn't use anaesthetic. They just smeared something on my stomach and carried out the sterilisation.
"Apart from aspirin for the pain, there were no other drugs. I was so frightened, I can't even remember how I felt. Some people were even physically damaged by the operation. They have limps and have to drag their hips."
Unconfirmed reports also suggest mobile sterilisation units are inserting a new type of contraceptive coil into village women that cannot be removed by them.

sad and disturbing realities in this
http://www.tibettruth.com/birthcontrol.html
"...It is significant that the population of Tibet makes up less than 1 per cent of China's population. According to Chinese figures, Tibetans from the so-called Tibet Autonomous Region (a truncated region forming a third of Tibet proper) are just 0.2 per cent of China's total population. It has been calculated that if the Tibetan population experiences an annual increase of 2.1 per cent (equivalent to the replacement rate), it would add just 0.3 per cent of China's yearly population growth. Tibet has a land surface comparable in size to that of Western Europe, yet its population is less than that of Greater London. The Tibetan population has coexisted in balance with a resource-rich environment for several millennia. Taken together these facts make it impossible to accept arguments for any form of population control in Tibet"..snip

"There are also numerous detailed accounts of physical force being used against women who are dragged from their homes and beaten in preparation for 'birth control operations'. A disturbing account, 'China's wanted children' (Yin, 1991) was compiled by Liu Yin, a Chinese who was allowed to accompany a birth control 'task force'. Liu Yin's report documents a raid on a village in which houses are stormed and women carried out in blankets to be taken for sterilisations and abortions. Liu Yin comments on conditions at the temporary clinic: "I could not believe what I saw. Hundreds of women, some more than six months pregnant, were packed into dark corridors and makeshift tents, waiting to be operated on." She describes toilets filled with blood-soaked toilet paper and waste bins full of aborted babies." ..snip

our government obviously doesnt want us to know why, some Heroic brave people are, according to out media theaterare.. just "standing up" ..and facing EMINENT torture and a grisly death

a search link>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=brutal+forced+tibetan+abortions&btnG=Google+Search> .. caution there are disturbing accounts about our most favored nations ON GOING genocide of the Tibetan people