Munich Olympics: Potential Security Threats

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Potential Security Threats Regardless the range of preparation and planning, the security risks at the Olympic Games have always been a considerable issue. Since 1972 of bloodstained Munich Olympics, it has been known by all that the Olympic Games are a potential target for both international terrorists and riotous demonstrators. Despite the fact that such mega events are short-term in time, but having long-term consequences for the host countries. Chinese organizers in particular pay more attention to the intimidation of domestic terrorism and violence by those seeking to breach the peace with the aim of attracting public attention to the human rights issue. It is potentially prolonged beyond the separatist sects such as Falun Gong group which their behavior are almost well monitored. According to the culture, disgruntled Chinese citizens just like other dissidents in this part of the world might resort to various types of violence to put pressure on the government. Occasionally occurrence of bomb attacks is always conceivable which some of them can be found in archived media. Authorities also always named them as mentally unstable person which trying to attract media. Hijacking of 10 Australian tourists in the city of Xi'an the ancient capital of China in just few months before the Olympics (ABC news, March 6th, 2008), two hour hostage siege of Reuters journalists with a hoax bomb in 2003 (CNN, March 12th, 2003), …show more content…

Adjacency to the sea and the possibility to increase the level of security by deploying warships, availability of security and transportation infrastructure, homogeneity of population and weather conditions are some of the positive traits of eastern and south eastern provinces of China. So Olympic venues had been established in Beijing, Qingdao, Hong Kong, Tianjin, Shanghai, Shenyang, and

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