China in our hands

For many people, watching the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics will be like trying to enjoy a party above the din of police cars taking away uninvited guests. However much you turn up the music, you can still hear the sirens: the oppressed of Tibet and other rebellious provinces, the silenced dissidents, the Western protesters, like the four ‘Free Tibet’ activists detained this week, the families of those executed under one of the most severe penal codes in the world.