Archbishop Tutu calls for Olympic boycott

Monday, 28th April 2008
By: Manasseh Zindo

Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Sunday April 27 urged world leaders to stay away from the opening ceremony of this summer’s Beijing Olympic Games.

"The leaders of the free world, for goodness sake, don't attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games until it is quite clear that they (the Chinese) mean business and that they will stop the violence against the Tibetans," Archbishop Tutu said at a Cape Town ceremony for an alternative "Tibetan" Olympic torch.

The South African Nobel Peace laureate lit a "Tibetan" Olympic torch, which was kindled in Delhi on January 30 and will travel to cities on five continents before arriving in May back in Dharamsala, India, where Tibet's parliament-in-exile is based. the rest