China is in some big trouble with the 2008 Olympic personnel. They have promised to live up to a certain amount of improvement with human rights for the future Beijing Olympics but they have not done so. Amnesty International is involved and say that it is the Olympic Committee's duty to follow through with this issue.
Amnesty holds reports that document a widespread use of the death penalty and have been extracting organs from these dead prisoners for transplants as well as they have been prosecuting civil-rights activists and have began to control the media much more and have began censoring the Internet.
The biggest offense concerning the Olympic committee though is that the Chinese government is forcing people out of their homes in order to make way for Olympic construction. They had originally hoped that the Beijing Olympic games would be a great show for human rights but the Communist leaders seem to be really rejecting this and won't speak of the matter.
This won't be a very good showing for the Olympic games if they represent themselves in such a place that does such cruel things to its own people when the games are supposed to be about the unity of the planet and all of its countries. I wonder if they will remove the games from Beijing if the nation doesn't comply with the Olympic committee's human rights requests. 2008 is almost too close for them to move the games somewhere else though unless they move to a previous location. Will there be a 2008 Olympic games if China refuses to comply?
2 comments:
WELL I think that the olympics should be moved if Bejjing isnt willing to comply. Why would the olympic committee want to hold the olympics, which causes for huge amounts of planning, at a place where the government is kicking people out of their homes to make room for the olympics. Why cant they find a part of the country where there is room to build the structures without kicking people out of their homes??
katie, china has a HUGE population problem. I highly doubt they will just stumble onto a place with enough room for the olympics. I do agree, though, that the olympics should be moved. It's ridiculous that the government thinks that it is alright to treat the citizens like this, especially when they are getting ready for the olympics. The location should be moved to another country no matter how short of time they are given. If just setting the olympics up is such an issue for the Chinese, imagine what will happen when the contries all start participating in the games.
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