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End China's Human Rights Abuses in Tibet Before the 2008 Olympics

Target: Jacques Rogge, International Olympic Committee President
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Although China is known around the world for violating human rights in Tibet, the International Olympic Committee chose Beijing as the site for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games.

Tens of thousands of Tibetans have been forced to leave their homeland due to the brutal Chinese occupation.

China's current policy toward Tibet includes:
  • Imprisoning and torturing Tibetans who speak out against the Chinese occupation of Tibet;
  • Violating religious freedoms, including abducting one of Tibet's most important religious figures when he was only six years old. The boy has not been seen since 1995;
  • Failing to provide adequate education and health care to Tibetan children, and to eradicate child malnutrition and preventable illnesses; and
  • Enforcing laws that discriminate against Tibetan identity, culture, and religion.
China has a historic opportunity to change its treatment of Tibetans and show the world that it's worthy to host the 2008 Olympics by negotiating a peace agreement with Tibet's exiled leader, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Let China know that its successful Olympic bid does NOT mean the world sanctions its mistreatment of Tibetans! CALL ON CHINA TO END HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN TIBET.
deadline: 9-4-2008
goal: 10,000
 
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Dear Mr. Rogge,

I am writing as someone who has been inspired both by the International Olympic Committee's dedication to the Olympic Truce and the Dalai Lama's peaceful efforts to find a negotiated solution for Tibet.

In light of the IOC's Olympic Truce commitment "to create a window of opportunities for dialogue, reconciliation and the resolution of conflicts...and to encourage political leaders to act in favour of peace" (www.olympic.org), it is clear that the IOC ideals and values are very applicable for Tibet as we approach the 2008 Games. The IOC has long contended that awarding Beijing the 2008 Games will improve human rights in China, but as time passes, these assurances have not turned into concrete results.

The IOC should not let the Olympics be used by China to blatantly or insidiously try to legitimize their rule in Tibet or to promote a distorted view of the conditions there. Yet with China's selection of the Tibetan antelope (or chiru) as an Olympic mascot, we are already seeing the first results of a Chinese strategy to misuse Tibet in relation to the 2008 Olympics.

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I ask that you use your good office to make real the lofty ideals of the Olympic Truce and hold Beijing to the same high standard. There is a real opportunity to promote the Olympics Truce with regards to Tibet and to improve the human rights situation there. Thank you for your help.

Sincerely,
[Your name]
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We signed the “End China's Human Rights Abuses in Tibet Before the 2008 Olympics” petition!
# 15,550:
2:48 am PDT, May 9, Jane Coe, United Kingdom
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9:42 pm PDT, May 8, Mariss Lane, Canada
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9:13 am PDT, May 8, Sheri Harrington, United Kingdom
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4:40 am PDT, May 8, Monita Gunawan, Indonesia
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4:12 am PDT, May 8, Sherry Phillips, California
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3:43 pm PDT, May 7, Jody Bennett, United Kingdom
when the worlds camera lights turned to china for the olympics, it lit up all the dark corners china has been hidding for many years, now you see them you cant ignore them, chinas problems now have faces, help them
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9:36 pm PDT, May 6, Wenz Wytch, Australia
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4:40 pm PDT, May 6, James Cilek, Minnesota
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3:55 pm PDT, May 5, Seth Stern, New Jersey
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1:27 pm PDT, May 5, Name not displayed, California
Mr. Rogge, China will do whatever it wants the United States owes lots of money to China you think the U.S. is going to mess up business relations with China? the Olympic committee never should have let china Host the Olympics when they knew China has a civil rights problem.
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10:49 am PDT, May 5, Name not displayed, Canada
I am dismayed the Olympics would be in a country that so abuses people and animals--it is distressing that "the high water mark" for excellence in sports would be in a country that definitely does not reflect that in moral issues!!
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9:18 am PDT, May 5, Gloria Scimiterna, Italy
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8:42 pm PDT, May 4, Jess Bird, Australia
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4:56 pm PDT, May 3, Michael Miller, New York
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9:25 am PDT, May 3, Tanya Payne, Massachusetts
and Animal Extermination, as well....the horrific treatment and painfully tortureous way these "pet Dogs and Cats" have been enduring and still are.........read my blog on myspace at tanyaisa@gmail.com my group is Tan's Alt. Movement
# 15,535:
7:44 am PDT, May 3, Lauren Stamatis, Massachusetts
# 15,534:
3:14 am PDT, May 3, Enaz Hasmy, Malaysia
Not only do they mistreat humans(in this case the Tibetans)they also skin alive their cats and dogs.What kind of sick society is this.
# 15,533:
4:39 pm PDT, May 2, Jessica G, Georgia
It is time for us to stop ignoring the human right abuse going on in China, and this is the time for us to hold the People's Republic accountable for the current situation.
# 15,532:
4:39 pm PDT, May 2, Daniel French, Florida
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12:13 pm PDT, May 2, Chris Maibes, Missouri
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10:42 am PDT, May 2, Flagirl McKenna, Florida
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10:41 am PDT, May 2, L Jenna Fisher, Canada
because thats whats right
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10:25 am PDT, May 2, Jessica Moore, Alaska
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9:25 am PDT, May 2, Paul Bruce-joy, United Kingdom
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8:58 am PDT, May 2, Ashley Simpson, New York
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2:21 am PDT, May 2, Urdhvaga Das, Germany
Dear Sir, I have been to Lhasa and seen the concentrations camps, where Tibetans are tortured by Chinese. Please kindly stop these.
# 15,524:
12:27 pm PDT, May 1, Anita Mahdessian, South Africa
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9:40 am PDT, May 1, Valentina Bernasconi, Italy
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5:12 am PDT, May 1, Christopher Lopez, Maine
China has no right to act like this! Tibet should be a free nation. Imperialism is a thing of the past and shouldn't have a place in the modern world. FREE TIBET!
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1:04 pm PDT, Apr 30, Retha Burger, South Africa
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10:40 am PDT, Apr 30, Adam Hahn, Virginia
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10:45 pm PDT, Apr 29, Lee K, Canada
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3:06 pm PDT, Apr 29, Angeles Deesse, Canada
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1:02 pm PDT, Apr 29, Anita Kofta, Wisconsin
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12:15 pm PDT, Apr 29, Jamie Rogers, California
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7:14 pm PDT, Apr 28, Rikki Risatti, New York
End universal imperialism and repressive governments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Viva la revultion'!
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7:04 pm PDT, Apr 28, Morgan Spencer, Louisiana
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3:42 pm PDT, Apr 28, Shawn Tate, Illinois
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12:07 pm PDT, Apr 28, Panos Paraskevopoulos, Greece
What is more, China's attitude to Dalai Lama is incomprehensible since His Holiness has repeated that he does not want independence but just respect of the Tibetan culture.
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5:01 am PDT, Apr 28, Gisella Tan, Hong Kong
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12:41 am PDT, Apr 28, MAGDA KARSKA, Poland
# 15,509:
12:37 am PDT, Apr 28, Randy Miller, California
You already know what happen when you have total gun controll total enslavement:(
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5:47 pm PDT, Apr 27, Saritha Vijayagopal, India
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4:53 pm PDT, Apr 27, Tereza Byrne, Massachusetts
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9:17 am PDT, Apr 27, Daniele Millay, Kentucky
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4:57 am PDT, Apr 27, Günter Hübler, Germany
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4:55 am PDT, Apr 27, Hübler Sabine, Germany
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4:45 am PDT, Apr 27, Jovana Bicanin, Serbia And Montenegro
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6:08 am PDT, Apr 26, Bill Craig, Germany
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7:39 pm PDT, Apr 25, Name not displayed, Indiana
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