Beijing Olympics: ‘Ethnic’ children exposed as fakes in opening ceremony
15th August 2008
They were dressed in costumes associated with the country’s ethnic minorities, including those from troubled areas such as Tibet and the muslim province of Xinjiang. Such displays of “national unity” are a compulsory part of any major state occasion.
But the children were all from the Han Chinese majority, which makes up more than 90 per cent of the population and is culturally and politically dominant, according to an official with the cultural troupe from which they were selected.
I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked.
Why does it always astound people when a Communist dictatorship acts like a Communist dictatorship? You’d think that Tienamen Square never happened.