04-04-2008, 01:21 PM
A tip of the hat to football hero <b>Baichung Bhutia </b>
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2008, Bhutia was solicited to run with the Olympic torch in India, but he refused to carry the torch to show support for the Tibetan struggle. "I sympathise with the Tibetan cause. I'm against violence but I thought I should stand by the Tibetan people in their fight," Bhutia said, giving a shot in the arm for the growing Tibetan protest to the Beijing Olympic Games. He is the only Indian to date who has refused to carry the Olympic torch. His actions have won him much praise from the Tibetan community and its supporters in India
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Says B Raman about him
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The importance of the participation of football hero <b>Baichung Bhutia </b>to the Chinese was not only because he is a football hero, but also because he is a highly-respected Buddhist personality. He saw through their game and declined to let himself be used by the Chinese to serve their psychological warfare agenda in Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai. One hopes he does not change his mind under pressure from our Communists. It is a pity you (Amir Khan) have not seen through their game.
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<img src='http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2d/Bhutia.jpg/300px-Bhutia.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->In 2008, Bhutia was solicited to run with the Olympic torch in India, but he refused to carry the torch to show support for the Tibetan struggle. "I sympathise with the Tibetan cause. I'm against violence but I thought I should stand by the Tibetan people in their fight," Bhutia said, giving a shot in the arm for the growing Tibetan protest to the Beijing Olympic Games. He is the only Indian to date who has refused to carry the Olympic torch. His actions have won him much praise from the Tibetan community and its supporters in India
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baichung_Bhutia"
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Says B Raman about him
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The importance of the participation of football hero <b>Baichung Bhutia </b>to the Chinese was not only because he is a football hero, but also because he is a highly-respected Buddhist personality. He saw through their game and declined to let himself be used by the Chinese to serve their psychological warfare agenda in Tibet, Sichuan, Gansu and Qinghai. One hopes he does not change his mind under pressure from our Communists. It is a pity you (Amir Khan) have not seen through their game.
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