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Behind the Olympic news: as the 2008 Olympic Games approach, Chinese authorities are working overtime to make sure that the world sees only a positive image of their oppressive regime.(CHINA)(Cover story)
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On July 19, the Washington Post Foreign Service published an article about China's preparations for the Olympic Games. For a glimpse of the continued communist-style repression in that huge country, we offer part of an article written from Yengisharar in the far-western Xinjiang region of the vast nation: Shortly after dawn on July 9, the local government here bused several thousand students and office workers into a public square and lined them up in front of a vocational school. As the spectators watched, witnesses said, three prisoners were brought out. Then, an execution squad fired rifles at the three point-blank, killing them on the ...
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