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Dubious Destinations
By Mr. Girard | July 9, 2008
While Yahoo! Travel recently posted its list “Best Scenic Drives in the US”, the BBC World Service examined China’s preparation for this year’s summer Olympics which’ll take place in and around Beijing in a timely documentary series. The broadcasts, “Countdown to the Olympics”, presented an investigation of continued religious persecution and political and economic disenfranchisement of the nation’s people despite China’s supposed commitment to reform it voiced during the petition process to host the games.
In addition to the world’s athletes, China will host spectators from all over the globe this year, but that country is one of several among the “World’s Most Controversial Destinations”. (Included in the list, regrettably, is Ethiopia, the land of my son and daughter’s birth.)
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