1) Human rights are practically non-existent in Communist China.
Religious persecution, imprisonment and murder of non-violent political dissidents, torture, organ harvesting and sentences to hard labor are widespread.
2) The lack of freedom of the press and safety risks for foreign reporters.
Many foreign websites are banned from being visited within China, foreign reporters are prohibited from interviewing anyone without previous permission from the government, and the content of all broadcasting is severely restricted. Foreign news media reporters have been arrested and sentenced to prison under vague and wide-reaching security laws.
3) The 1980 Olympic Games in Communist Russia were boycotted by 64 states, under the leadership of the U.S.
Beijing is not any different from Moscow in 1980, which was also the capital of a Communist police state.
4) Communist China constantly threatens to attack Taiwan.
China’s government passed a law that explicitly calls for military intervention in response to any intention by the democratic government of Taiwan to declare independence. Military maneuvers indicate that the Communists’ military is preparing to enforce this law.
5) Beijing has the most polluted air in the world.
Studies and satellites photos have proven that Beijing suffers from extremely high nitrogen dioxide levels, vitally dangerous to the health of the athletes.
6) China is plagued by widespread social, political, and economic unrest.
A surge in huge land grabs and forced evictions by the Chinese government for reasons of economic expansion and Olympic Games preparations have sparked thousands of protests. The government has murdered hundreds of protesters.
7) The Chinese government has been bribing and threatening large numbers of members of the International Olympic Committee.
A number of U.S. Representatives, for example, Congressman Tom Lantos, have stated this on national television.
8) A boycott has some potential to serve as a strategy to encourage human rights in China.
Only the greedy and foolish global elite think this is true the other way around.

9) Holding the Olympic Games in Communist China contradicts the Olympic Charter.
The Olympic Charter defines the philosophy of Olympism as the “respect for universal fundamental ethical principles” and its goal of promoting “a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity.”
10) Don’t repeat the errors of 1936 when Nazi Germany was allowed to host the Olympic Games.
The Olympic Games will give Communist China the same propaganda tool Nazi Germany enjoyed. Not since 1936 have the ideals of Olympics been so trampled upon.

editor’s note: Not only does the Chinese government abuse its own people, but it exports terror to neighboring countries, most notably Tibet. The Dali Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, fled Tibet in 1959 and set up the Government of Tibet in Exile in Dharamsala, India. Of late there have been numerous and escalated attacks on the people of Tibet especially the monks for the stand of the Dali Lami on human rights issues.

In addition, arms exports to the Sudan being used in the Darfur conflict are another example of China’s callousness. China sold Sudan $55 million worth of small arms from 2003-2006 and provided 90 percent of Sudan’s small arms since 2004 when a U.N. arms embargo took effect. These weapons are being used. International experts estimate some 200,000 people have died and 2.5 million have been forced to flee their homes in Darfur since conflict erupted in 2003, when rebels took up arms against the central government.

Demetrius Klitou is the author of the book "The Friends and Foes of Human Rights", available at www.ebookmall.com. He holds a BA in International Area Studies and a MA in Diplomatic Studies. He will be pursuing a LL.M. in Public International Law at Leiden University. Published June 28, 2006 by the China Support Network (CSN). Begun as the American response group in 1989, CSN represents Americans who are “on the side” of the students in Tiananmen Square - standing for democratic reform, human rights, and freedom in China. For dissident news; to support a stronger China policy; or get more information, see http://www.chinasupport.net.