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07.08.2006Dva roky do Pekingu 2008: MOV selhal, aktivisté vyzývají sportovce a sponzory k akciPraha / Paříž / Frankfurt / Washington, 7. srpna 2006 - Dva roky před tím, než mají v Pekingu začít olympijské hry 2008, vydala společné prohlášení mezinárodní koalice organizací za lidská práva. Říká v něm, že Mezinárodní olympijský výbor selhal při obraně olympijských ideálů, a vyzývá k akci národní olympijské výbory, sportovce a sponzory. S odkazem na pokračující porušování lidských práv a politicko-propagandistické zneužití her čínskou autoritářskou vládou říká, že bojkot je jednou z možných forem protestu. Olympic Watch, Reportéři bez hranic (RSF), Mezinárodní společnost pro lidská práva (ISHR/IGFM), Solidarité Chine a Laogai Research Foudnation uvádějí, že navzdory snahám lidskoprávních aktivistů "MOV se odmítá vypořádat se s realitou, v níž se má konat Peking 2008" a že současné vedení MOV je možná "buď příliš cynické, nebo příliš neschopné, anebo obojí, na to aby ochránilo olympijské ideály a zaujalo jasné stanovisko k porušování lidských práv v Číně". Vyzývají tedy národní olympijské výbory a jednotlivé sportovce, aby začali diskutovat o způsobech, jak protestovat proti podmínkám, za nichž se mají uskutečnit OH 2008", s tím, že jednou z možností je "plný, veřejně deklarovaný bojkot olympijských her Peking 2008". Upozorňují také, že sponzoři olympijského hnutí mají zodpovědnost prokázat, že "jejich firemní filosofie není slepá vůči propagandistickému zneužití her a porušování lidských práv". Plný text prohlášení následuje níže. Two Years until Beijing 2008 - Joint statement by human rights organizations In two years from now, the 2008 Olympic Games are supposed to start in Beijing. The International Olympic Committee made its decision in 2001 based on promises by Beijing bidders that the human rights situation in China would be improving. That has not clearly happened, as documented by all independent monitors. The authoritarian government of China continues to execute more people every year than the rest of the world combined; imprison and torture people who peacefully exercise their right to freedom of expression and association; persecute Tibetan Buddhists, Uyghur Muslims, Chinese Christians and Falun Gong practitioners; deny talks about autonomy to the Tibetan people; endanger democratic processes in Taiwan and elsewhere in East Asia. Human rights are violated even in direct relation to the preparation of the Games as hundreds of thousands Beijing residents are evicted without compensation from their homes, and those who dare to protest are often persecuted. By all accounts, Beijing 2008 seems to be a tool for domestic and international political propaganda of the Chinese Communist Party, an unelected minority that has given up attempts to ideologically legitimize its rule over the Chinese people and is desperately looking for other paths to political legitimacy. The IOC has the obligation to protect the Olympic ideals of “harmonious development of man”, “human dignity” and “peace”, and to prevent the political propaganda abuse of the Games. Because of the importance of the Games to the CCP, it could easily exercise positive influence on the situation in China. We have made good faith efforts to engage the IOC through correspondence and even personal encounter, but the IOC has refused to face the reality in which Beijing 2008 is to take place. Time is running out. As minimum, the IOC could demand that the Beijing Organizing Committee of the Olympic Games not be personally linked to the perpetrators of human rights violations, the Chinese Communist Party. If the executive of IOC President Jacques Rogge continues to hide away from reality and only repeat Beijing leadership’s unsubstantiated PR claims of “progress”, it will prove that it truly is either too cynical, or too incompetent, or both, to protect the Olympic ideals and take a clear stance on the continuing human rights abuses in China. The Olympic movement should start seeking ways to replace its current leadership. With this leadership of the IOC, we see it necessary to look for help of others to make sure the Olympic Games have a positive, rather than negative effect on the human rights situation of the Chinese people. National Olympic Committees, individual athletes, and even Olympic sponsors have the obligation and opportunity to act to protect the Olympic ideals and internationally recognized human rights. We therefore call on National Olympic Committees and individual athletes to start discussing ways how they can protest the conditions under which the 2008 Games are to take place. Among the several options at hand are: * full, publicly stated boycott of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games * staging peaceful protests in Beijing during the Games * including Chinese, Tibetan and Uyghur exiles in their teams and delegations * visiting human rights defenders in prison. Olympic Watch and other human rights organizations are ready to assist them in finding the most appropriate ways, depending on the developments between now and the beginning of the Games. Corporate sponsors of the Olympic movement and of the 2008 Olympic Games also have an opportunity to show their commitment to corporate social responsibility. They should make it clear to the IOC and to BOCOG that their business philosophy does not condone propaganda abuse of the Games and human rights violations. Time is truly running out. The IOC, National Olympic Committees, individual athletes, corporate sponsors and other citizens of the world have an obligation to show their solidarity with other human beings, and a great opportunity to do so. August 7, 2006 Olympic Watch Reporters Without Borders (RSF) International Society for Human Rights (ISHR/IGFM) Solidarité Chine Laogai Research Foundation |
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