Olympic Organizers Say Children in Olympic Ceremony Not Minorities...
A Chinese Olympic official has acknowledged that organizers of last week's opening ceremony faked a portrayal of ethnic minority children, in the latest controversy involving the lavish celebrations.
Olympic organizers had previously said the children were from China's 56 officially recognized ethnic groups.
But Beijing Olympic organizing committee deputy director Wang Wei on Friday acknowledged that was not true. Wang said it was normal for performers to portray different ethnicities.His statement was in response to questions from foreign journalists, who were told by an official (Yuan Zhifeng) with a children's art troupe that the performers all came from her all-Han troupe. Click more...
8/17/08
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