Apr 12 2008
The Olympic Torch
The Olympic Torch left Argentina and is set to make its run in China-friendly Tanzania, where its expected to be a trouble-free run. In landed in the country’s capital, Dar Es Salaam, which in Swahili means “Port of Peace.” This flows very well with the 2008 Olympic games’ theme “tour of harmony.”
Whether this “port of peace” should be a harmonious torch relay is a different story. Cities across the world have had held protests as the torch has hit their country’s shores. UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon, announced he wouldn’t be attendingthe Olympic games. And Kenyan Nobel Prize laureate Wangari Maathai said she had pulled out of the torch relay in Tanzania to protest China’s human rights record.
