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Tibetans campaign against China bid to host Olympics
New Delhi, July 3, 2001
Mizzima News Group (www.mizzima.com)
A worldwide signature campaign has been launched by Tibetans, mounting
pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reject China's
bid to host the 2008 summer Olympic Games. Spearheaded by Tibetan
Women's Association (TWA) in India, Tibetans have been organizing
demonstrations, hunger strikes and signature campaigns calling on the
IOC to reject Beijing's candidature.
Protest rallies and daylong hunger strikes were organized on last Sunday
in various places in India including at Dharamsala, seat of the Tibetan
Government in exile. According to Tibetan Women's Association, it had
distributed twenty five thousand postcards urging IOC not to accept
China's efforts to stage the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
"The principles of International Olympics are friendship and respect of
human rights where as China does not respect human rights. Human rights
violations in China and Tibet have been going on from bad to worse",
said Ms Tsering Choeton Arya, general secretary of the TWA, which claims
to have more than ten thousand memberships. "Since Chinese occupation
over Tibet in 1949, more than 1.2 million Tibetans have been killed and
more than six thousand Tibetan monasteries have been destroyed".
Members of the International Olympic Committee are scheduled to meet in
Moscow on July 8-13 to give a final word on which city will host the
next Olympic Games. Beijing is the front-runner among the candidates
cities -- which also include Paris, Toronto, Osaka and Istanbul.
Three human rights groups, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), Solidarity
with China and Committee for the Support of Tibetan People, have already
called on the IOC to say no to Beijing.
In a statement on June 12th addressed to the IOC's 123 members, the
groups said "there are enough democratic countries to avoid giving one
of the last and most violent dictatorships in the world the privilege of
organizing the most prestigious festival of sport."
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<center><b><font color="#3333FF"><font size=+2>Tibetans campaign against
China bid to host Olympics</font></font></b></center>
<p><i><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+1>New Delhi, July 3, 2001</font></font></i>
<br><i><font color="#FF0000"><font size=+1>Mizzima News Group <a href="http://www.mizzima.com";>(www.mizzima.com)</a></font></font></i>
<p><font size=+1>A worldwide signature campaign has been launched by Tibetans,
mounting pressure on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to reject
China's bid to host the 2008 summer Olympic Games. Spearheaded by Tibetan
Women's Association (TWA) in India, Tibetans have been organizing demonstrations,
hunger strikes and signature campaigns calling on the IOC to reject Beijing's
candidature.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Protest rallies and daylong hunger strikes were organized
on last Sunday in various places in India including at Dharamsala, seat
of the Tibetan Government in exile. According to Tibetan Women's Association,
it had distributed twenty five thousand postcards urging IOC not to accept
China's efforts to stage the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.</font>
<p><font size=+1>"The principles of International Olympics are friendship
and respect of human rights where as China does not respect human rights.
Human rights violations in China and Tibet have been going on from bad
to worse", said Ms Tsering Choeton Arya, general secretary of the TWA,
which claims to have more than ten thousand memberships. "Since Chinese
occupation over Tibet in 1949, more than 1.2 million Tibetans have been
killed and more than six thousand Tibetan monasteries have been destroyed".</font>
<p><font size=+1>Members of the International Olympic Committee are scheduled
to meet in Moscow on July 8-13 to give a final word on which city will
host the next Olympic Games. Beijing is the front-runner among the candidates
cities -- which also include Paris, Toronto, Osaka and Istanbul.</font>
<p><font size=+1>Three human rights groups, Reporters Without Borders (RSF),
Solidarity with China and Committee for the Support of Tibetan People,
have already called on the IOC to say no to Beijing.</font>
<p><font size=+1>In a statement on June 12th addressed to the IOC's 123
members, the groups said "there are enough democratic countries to avoid
giving one of the last and most violent dictatorships in the world the
privilege of organizing the most prestigious festival of sport."</font>
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