Genocide Watch calls for a full spectator and sponsor boycott of Beijing's Genocide Olympics.
Genocide Watch has concluded that calls by some human rights groups and heads of state for a boycott of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Genocide Olympics do not go nearly far enough to shame the Chinese dictatorship for its continuing financial and arms support for the genocidal regimes in Sudan and Burma, and Chinese oppression of Tibetans and Muslim Uighers in Xinjiang.
Genocide Watch calls on all persons, especially world leaders, planning to attend the Olympics to cancel their reservations and boycott the Olympic Games. Genocide Watch also calls for cancellation of corporate sponsorship by McDonald's, Coca Cola, General Electric, Samsung, and other companies that have invested in the Beijing Olympics, whether or not they can recover their investments. If they refuse to withdraw their sponsorship, Genocide Watch calls for a boycott of the products of the companies that are Olympic sponsors.
Genocide Watch does not call for athletes to boycott the Beijing Olympics, because they have only one chance every four years to compete, and should not be punished for the misguided choice of Beijing by the International Olympic Committee. The Olympics should return to the ideals of Baron Pierre de Coubertin and be made into a pure sporting event. The only way to do that this year, when the Olympics have become so politicized for the prestige of the Chinese regime is for spectators and sponsors to boycott the games.
Communist China has been a serial supporter of mass murder since its founding. Communist China began with the mass killing of millions of "class enemies" in China. China immediately supported North Korea's aggression against South Korea in a war that cost millions of lives, and has continued its support of North Korea, a regime that has starved over two million of its own people. In 1951, China invaded Tibet, followed by a genocide of over a million Tibetans. Communist China's "Great Leap Forward" and its "Cultural Revolution" were among the most murderous crimes in human history and cost tens of millions of lives. From 1975 to 1979, China was the main supporter of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia that killed two million people.
Some argue that China's leaders have changed and China has adopted a new economic system. But China remains a communist dictatorship and its disrespect for the value of human life remains unchanged. It is now the main economic supporter of both Burma and Sudan, two of the most murderous regimes on earth. China is the main buyer of their oil and gas, and they use the money China pays their governments to purchase weapons from China, with which they have perpetrated genocide against the Karen and other minorities in Burma, and against the Nuba, Dinka, Nuer, Fur, Massaleit, Zaghawa, and other African ethnic minorities in Sudan. China not only continues to aid and abet genocide in Burma and Sudan. It continues the colonial occupation and oppression of the people of Tibet and Xinjiang.
China has taken cosmetic measures to give the appearance of placing pressure on Sudan's genocidal regime. But the naming of a special Chinese envoy to Sudan has not stopped China's continuing multi-billion dollar annual extraction of Sudanese oil, its financing of the Sudanese government, and its interference with effective measures to stop the genocide in Darfur by the United Nations.
Over 250,000 deaths, tens of thousands of mass rapes, and 2.5 million displaced persons in Darfur are enough. Thousands of murders of monks, minorities, and democracy activists in Burma are enough. 57 years of genocide and oppression in Tibet are enough. Enough is enough. The time for a full spectator and sponsor boycott of the Genocide Olympics has come. Genocide Watch calls on every person opposed to genocide to support it. |
