Being the story of two missing men: Mr Ji, a legal advocate who acts for people in the Chinese countryside; and IOC President Jacques Rogge. As you will see, they have gone missing in rather different senses. One is now nowhere to be found; the other has gone silent.
Not a word about the war in the Caucasus. Not a word about the armored personnel carrier that was standing in front of the Olympic press center on Tuesday, like a warning. Not a word about the doctored TV images from the evening of the opening ceremony. Rogge is silent. The IOC is silent. It has nothing to say about the ongoing arrests of protestors here and there, nothing about the growing number of soldiers and police officers on the Olympic Green and in the media village. Not a word about the case of Mr. Ji.
I'm not sure why the IOC should be thought called upon to comment on the war in the Caucasus; but its other silences are guilty silences in light of undertakings not honoured.
