Wednesday, March 19, 2008

A person wanting to boycott the China's Olympic Games

From http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080228/OPINION02/767206831



Published: Thursday, February 28, 2008
United States should boycott Olympic Games
President Carter declared a boycott on the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

With six months to go before the 2008 Beijing Summer Games, consider the following. China's forced occupation of Tibet has led to the deaths of an estimated 1.2 million Tibetans, and Tibetans continue to suffer today under a brutal Chinese tyranny. China's direct support of the genocide in Sudan shamelessly continues.

Within China's borders, forced family planning and forced abortions are common. Execution is the punishment for 68 different crimes, with defendants denied due process. China has thousands of forced-labor prisons, which hold political dissidents, journalists and members of non-state-approved religious groups.

There are firsthand reports of physical and psychological torture, confessions obtained by torture, live organ harvesting, and other unimaginable atrocities within these prisons.

Several China human rights groups are urging a boycott of the Beijing summer games. Steven Spielberg resigned as artistic consultant for the opening ceremonies because of the Sudan genocide issue. For similar reasons, Prince Charles is boycotting the event.

Legislation has been introduced in the U.S. Congress for a boycott. I hope it passes. China has not proven it deserves the honor of hosting the Olympic Games.

Christine Giroux

Merrimack

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