An international press freedom organization is urging tens of thousands of sports-lovers and journalist, who plan to attend the 2008 Olympic Games in Bejing, to use the leverage they have to pressure Chinese authorities regarding ongoing human rights abuses in the communist country.
The group Reporters Without Borders has launched an international campaign to alert world opinion about the widespread violations of basic freedoms in communist China.
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Morillon says the Chinese government cannot host an event like the Olympics if it does not keep the promises it made back in 2001 when the Games were awarded to Beijing. It was then that China vowed, "By entrusting the holding [of] the Olympic Games to Beijing, you will be contributing to the development of human rights." Morillon says six years later, that simply has not happened.
"China is not only holding journalists, [and] cyber-dissidents, but also people who are being targeted for their religious beliefs, or just because they are Tibetans," she says. "There are other Christians in jail in China again because they don't do what the Communist Party wants them to do."
The pressure is mounting. The word is getting around.
Boycott or no boycott, the Communists are going to feel the pressure of world opinion against their evilness like never before.
