The Beijing Olympics Have Arrived! Human Rights Improvements Have Not!
Call to the Chinese Government: "Showcase Human Rights at the Beijing Olympics"
Now that the Beijing Olympics are about to begin, it is apparent that all the promises China made to improve human rights before the Olympics were nothing but empty rhetoric. Ample evidence exists of the human rights abuses still being committed today by the Chinese government domestically, as well as its continuing support for human rights violators around the world.
The Olympic Games are an important event for all humanity, because of the Olympic ideals of peace and friendship. Unfortunately, in the last days before the opening of the Games in Beijing, many human rights organizations have reported that human rights conditions in China have only deteriorated. When the Games were awarded, the Chinese government pledged to the international community to improve these conditions; this pledge has already been broken. The global propaganda campaign for the Beijing Games, based on the slogan "one world, one dream," is a cruel irony for all the victims of the Chinese government's actions.
