I chose the Chinese government, it ultimately falls on them IMO.

   

I have to agree with you and place the blame on the Chinese government....

In 1949, the Chinese Communists, led by Mao Tse-tung, overthrew the Chinese nationalist government and swept into power.

In 1950, in an expansionist campaign to achieve strategic advantage in Asia disguised as “a mission of liberation,” China sent its People’s Liberation Army on an invasionary expedition into eastern Tibet, occupying the provinces of Kham and Amdo.

On March 10th, 1959, after nine years of fruitless negotiations between the governments of China and Tibet, People’s Liberation Army forces already in Lhasa moved to kidnap and assassinate the Dalai Lama, leading the people of Lhasa to rise up in rebellion.

On March 17th, 1959, to put down the uprising, the PLA opened cannon fire on Lhasa, and the Dalai Lama was forced to flee into exile.
Over 87,000 men, women and children were killed in the three months after the March 10th uprising, and tens of thousands were imprisoned, as all of Tibet was occupied by the PLA.

Over 6,000 of Tibet’s 6,200 monasteries were looted and destroyed during China’s “cultural revolution,” and most of their irreplaceable religious texts and artworks have been lost.

There is no freedom of speech, press, or religion in Tibet. It is illegal to own a drawing or photograph of the Dalai Lama.

Millions of Chinese colonists have been actively encouraged and subsidized by the People’s Republic of China to settle in occupied Tibetan lands. The most recent estimates indicate that there are 7.5 million Chinese to 6 million Tibetans in Tibet. The colonists receive preferential treatment in education, employment, housing, health care and most other matters of civic life. Use of the Tibetan language is discouraged in Tibetan schools; all lessons are taught in Chinese

   

i blame the IOC. they knew this would happen, and they see it as a PR move. bad press is better than no press. The olympics is the largest reality show on the planet.

   

without question, the IOC.. they were dumb enough to give

the games to China in the first place..


i will not watch any of it this year..

   

I blame the IOC for giving the games to them yes, but the I blame China most because it's like what came first, the chicken or the egg... and China's repression of Tibet started long ago.

   

No one .

   

Another of our new Chinese site members...

Welcome to CKA.

   

I really wish that the IOC and the Chinese government could have an option since they both share some blame here. The IOC are morons for even giving China the option, and the Chinese are always at fault for their actions with Tibet.

   

What gave anybody the idea that China would change? Since the fall of the USSR, they've been saying that China was going to addopt western ideals and open government and the only thing they picked up was the worst form of capitalism.

The Chinese are mobsters but the IOC are stupid and it was their choice. Who's next, Burma or Zimbabwe?

   

Vancouver

   

I was just thinking that.

Lots of Chinese immigrants in the Vancouver area, could be problems.

   

Well let me cut across the grain here but I blame the people who's actions caused the chaos for the chaos.

If the protesters didn't screw with the torch their would have been no chaos, no semi news (honestly who realy cares about the torch other than maybe the person holding it right now), no ragin internet debates on the issue.

Maybe the question should who do you dislike the most out of these three groups you can blame any of them you like.

I think I'd still pick the protesters.

   

I don't like to play the blame game.

   

Personally I don't give a shit whose to blame, but that being said, if the Chinese hadn't acted like savages in quelling the protests in Tibet it may have all been forgotten much more quickly.

Perhaps it's time to stop the ritual of the Olympic flame being brought from Greece to the Olympic site. This whole concept was conceived by another autocratic, despotic dictatorship, namely the National Socialists who decided to advance their cause world wide by as instilling as much mysticism as they could think of into the 1936 Olympics, including the torch ceremony.

   

I dislike the Chinese government but....

People are responsible for their own actions.