Developing Human Rights - the Fascist Way
From: Boycott 2008 Communist Olympics:
The Olympic message (slightly edited/shortened)
In 2001, the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympics. Liu Jingmin, Vice President of the Beijing Olympic Bid, in April 2001, said: "By allowing Beijing to host the Games you will help the development of human rights."
From the Human Rights Torch Relay issues of concern:
- An estimated 100 million Falun Gong practitioners and their families are enduring ever more stringent persecution; tens of thousands of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have had their organs forcibly extracted and sold.
- Hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens are held as political prisoners without charge or trial, including democracy activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists (including monks and nuns), Uighurs, ‘unofficial’ church members, Falun Gong practitioners, environmental activists, health and reproductive rights activists, and political dissidents.
- People have been evicted from their homes to make way for commercial construction, and beaten or killed if they protest; any meager payment offered to them is usually stolen by corrupt local officials.
- Millions of Chinese are sent without trial to slave labor camps, where they are tortured and forced to work long days producing consumer goods.
- China continues to impose forced abortion and sterilization to enforce its gruesome ‘One Child’ policy, as per-family population control measures.
- China imprisons more reporters, and executes more prisoners, than any other country in the world.
- The military junta in Burma, controlled by the CCP, has enforced 19 years of brutal oppression on the Burmese people, and most recently violently cracked down on monks, sympathizers and reporters.
- The Chinese regime funds and arms the Sudanese-government-supported Janjaweed militia, which is committing genocide in Darfur. Hundreds of thousands have been murdered and nearly two million displaced from their homes.
- Close monitoring and suppression of free speech at all levels.
And a few extra from myself:
- People who practice their right for petition as per Chinese law are jailed (see 3 messages ago).
- Freedom of religion is 'ensured' by Chinese law, in practice however, there is no freedom of religion at all.
- People's houses are raided and persons are arrested on a large scale without apparent reason, often these people are beaten/tortured and - if they are lucky - freed after some time.
- Many trials in China are a complete farce; they are not public, accused have no access to a lawyer and are not even allowed to make a statement; the latest 'trials' of Tibetans are a good example of this.
- (Child) Slavery, it exists, and probably not just a few isolated cases.
- The bodies of people who die because of torture in prisons, whose organs are cut out for organ donation, or are shot during protests are often cremated to cover up any remaining evidence - nothing short of what Nazi Germany did in their famous concentration camps.
- People are forced to undergo 're-education sessions' in an attempt to brainwash any ideas that are not convenient to the central government. During the last weeks a new re-education was ordered to take place in Tibet.
But, it seems the happiness of some athletes is more important then all of this...
The Olympic message (slightly edited/shortened)
In 2001, the International Olympic Committee awarded Beijing the 2008 Olympics. Liu Jingmin, Vice President of the Beijing Olympic Bid, in April 2001, said: "By allowing Beijing to host the Games you will help the development of human rights."
From the Human Rights Torch Relay issues of concern:
- An estimated 100 million Falun Gong practitioners and their families are enduring ever more stringent persecution; tens of thousands of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience have had their organs forcibly extracted and sold.
- Hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens are held as political prisoners without charge or trial, including democracy activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists (including monks and nuns), Uighurs, ‘unofficial’ church members, Falun Gong practitioners, environmental activists, health and reproductive rights activists, and political dissidents.
- People have been evicted from their homes to make way for commercial construction, and beaten or killed if they protest; any meager payment offered to them is usually stolen by corrupt local officials.
- Millions of Chinese are sent without trial to slave labor camps, where they are tortured and forced to work long days producing consumer goods.
- China continues to impose forced abortion and sterilization to enforce its gruesome ‘One Child’ policy, as per-family population control measures.
- China imprisons more reporters, and executes more prisoners, than any other country in the world.
- The military junta in Burma, controlled by the CCP, has enforced 19 years of brutal oppression on the Burmese people, and most recently violently cracked down on monks, sympathizers and reporters.
- The Chinese regime funds and arms the Sudanese-government-supported Janjaweed militia, which is committing genocide in Darfur. Hundreds of thousands have been murdered and nearly two million displaced from their homes.
- Close monitoring and suppression of free speech at all levels.
And a few extra from myself:
- People who practice their right for petition as per Chinese law are jailed (see 3 messages ago).
- Freedom of religion is 'ensured' by Chinese law, in practice however, there is no freedom of religion at all.
- People's houses are raided and persons are arrested on a large scale without apparent reason, often these people are beaten/tortured and - if they are lucky - freed after some time.
- Many trials in China are a complete farce; they are not public, accused have no access to a lawyer and are not even allowed to make a statement; the latest 'trials' of Tibetans are a good example of this.
- (Child) Slavery, it exists, and probably not just a few isolated cases.
- The bodies of people who die because of torture in prisons, whose organs are cut out for organ donation, or are shot during protests are often cremated to cover up any remaining evidence - nothing short of what Nazi Germany did in their famous concentration camps.
- People are forced to undergo 're-education sessions' in an attempt to brainwash any ideas that are not convenient to the central government. During the last weeks a new re-education was ordered to take place in Tibet.
But, it seems the happiness of some athletes is more important then all of this...
posted by Rudy @ 3:40 PM
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