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APPEAL TO BOYCOTT 2008 BEIJING OLYMPICS
Honorable President Bush:
We are highly aggrieved and deeply disturbed at the brutal crackdown by Chinese troops on the peaceful people of tiny Himalayan kingdom of Tibet.
The reign of terror and repression has been let lose by the worlds largest military dictatorship on the hapless non-violent Tibetans. From newspaper accounts in the last few weeks, dozens of Tibetan civilians are killed and thousands taken into custody.
It is a well known fact that ever since the forcible occupation of Tibet in 1949 by Chinas Peoples Liberation Army, there have been many reports of widespread mistreatment of civilians, torture of detainees and political prisoners, including beating, shocks with electric batons, deprivation of sleep or food or exposure to cold and other inhuman atrocities. These are a string of serious and severe violations of human rights.
Human Rights organizations and foreign diplomats have been denied access by Chinese to the prisons and detention centers in Tibet.
Tibet is overwhelmingly of the Buddhist faith. As Lord Buddha was born in India, Buddhism is like a sister religion to the Hinduism. Hindu people in India even believe Lord Buddha to be an incarnation of Hindu God Vishnu. There is a symbiotic relationship between Hindus and Buddhists and hence, the Hindu people are very concerned about the miserable plight of Tibetan civilians at the hands of Chinese army.
Well-known Hollywood star Richard Gere who is the Chairman of the Board of International Campaign for Tibet says: Tibet has a precious culture based on the principles of wisdom and compassion. This culture addresses what we lack in the world today, the very real sense of interconnectedness. We need to protect this ancient culture not only for the Tibetan people, but also for ourselves and our children.
Mr. President, you may recall that in the year 2002, U.S. Congress passed the Tibetan Policy Act that calls for the preservation of culture and identity of Tibetans living in exile and in Tibet. Under that act, it is the sacred duty of United States to protect the non-violent Tibetans from the brutal wrath of Chinese army.
In wake of the continuing crackdown in Tibet, we appeal to you, as our President, to send out a clear and strong message to the Chinese government by boycotting 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Earlier, as you may remember, we had boycotted Moscow Olympics in 1980 after Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan in 1979. This will be a minimal symbolic gesture of our solidarity with the Tibetan people.
Thank you.
Honorable President Bush:
We are highly aggrieved and deeply disturbed at the brutal crackdown by Chinese troops on the peaceful people of tiny Himalayan kingdom of Tibet.
The reign of terror and repression has been let lose by the worlds largest military dictatorship on the hapless non-violent Tibetans. From newspaper accounts in the last few weeks, dozens of Tibetan civilians are killed and thousands taken into custody.
It is a well known fact that ever since the forcible occupation of Tibet in 1949 by Chinas Peoples Liberation Army, there have been many reports of widespread mistreatment of civilians, torture of detainees and political prisoners, including beating, shocks with electric batons, deprivation of sleep or food or exposure to cold and other inhuman atrocities. These are a string of serious and severe violations of human rights.
Human Rights organizations and foreign diplomats have been denied access by Chinese to the prisons and detention centers in Tibet.
Tibet is overwhelmingly of the Buddhist faith. As Lord Buddha was born in India, Buddhism is like a sister religion to the Hinduism. Hindu people in India even believe Lord Buddha to be an incarnation of Hindu God Vishnu. There is a symbiotic relationship between Hindus and Buddhists and hence, the Hindu people are very concerned about the miserable plight of Tibetan civilians at the hands of Chinese army.
Well-known Hollywood star Richard Gere who is the Chairman of the Board of International Campaign for Tibet says: Tibet has a precious culture based on the principles of wisdom and compassion. This culture addresses what we lack in the world today, the very real sense of interconnectedness. We need to protect this ancient culture not only for the Tibetan people, but also for ourselves and our children.
Mr. President, you may recall that in the year 2002, U.S. Congress passed the Tibetan Policy Act that calls for the preservation of culture and identity of Tibetans living in exile and in Tibet. Under that act, it is the sacred duty of United States to protect the non-violent Tibetans from the brutal wrath of Chinese army.
In wake of the continuing crackdown in Tibet, we appeal to you, as our President, to send out a clear and strong message to the Chinese government by boycotting 2008 Beijing Olympics.
Earlier, as you may remember, we had boycotted Moscow Olympics in 1980 after Soviet Union had invaded Afghanistan in 1979. This will be a minimal symbolic gesture of our solidarity with the Tibetan people.
Thank you.
322 Signatures
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Somnath Paramshetti
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RAMACHANDRAN
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G. Gidwani
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Bhailal Patel
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Pradip Parekh
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- The Chinese torture and killings of spiritual peaceful people of an ancient civilzation is simply unforgiveable in the 21st century. When people increasingly are turning to spiritual guidance for their earthly ills from fast paced living, no govt of any country, much less the USA, can remain silent at this. Our enlightened common humanity must express itself enequivocally that it will no longer let the mundane interests in China override the need for Chinese govt to honor the rights of Tibetans in their own land of Tibet.
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Thakur Rajesh Singh Bhadauria
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- Democracies the world over should boycott Beijing Olympics. I am not an American, and I live in India. Yet, I appeal to the President of the U.S., as well as the heads of all democratic states to do the same.
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K. R. Venkataramaiah
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Naren Kamireddy
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S.. Mookerjee
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- The Bangladeshi minorities express total solidarity with the suffering Tibetans. The Islamic supremacists of Bangladesh and their Communist reactionary cohorts in the Chinese government are together in suppressing humnaity in their respective countires.
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Chandana
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Padmanabha Reddy
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Ilaxi
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Jhansi Lakshmi
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Jyotish Parekh
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Rajagopal Reddy
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Roja Kamireddy
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Ravi Kotti
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Alex rein
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Giridhar mallu
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Padmanabha Ketha
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P Ramaswamy Mohan
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Shilpi Mondol
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- End cultural Genocide: Endow your support
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Shiv
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- Buddhism - the bulwark against communism
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Dr. Surendra Gambhir
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- There are multiple reasons to boycott Beijing Olympics.
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Kumkum Singh
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dr yogesh g patel
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- stop china occupation
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BRAMH D MISHRA
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- right must be supported & wrong penalized
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Shilpa Kudtarkar
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Sudesh Agrawal,Ph.D.
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Ganapati Kamat
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vijender singh
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- yayati99@yahoo.com
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sunil singh
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Anand Agarwala
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- Democratic process should be supported.
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sunanda
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Satish Mullick
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Sushil Bhatia
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Keshav Dev
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Kamlesh Kapur, Surindra Kapur
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kalyanaraman
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Basu
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- The totalitarian regimes of China haven't changed much since 1959 when thousands of Buddhists were massacred in Tibet. Not only here, in Burma, in Darfur they have shown an appalling disdain for human righrs.The president of the most powerful nation on earth should send the morally right signal to Beijing by boycotting this Genocide Olympics.
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arish k sahani
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- its time when united nation should put stop to invesion to any culture. Islam and christian have distroyed 40 cultures .Communist are doing the same distoying Bhuddist culture we all should join and stop this.
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Bhupendra Maurya
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Ch.Narendra
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adityanjee
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Binod K Singh
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S. K. Gupta
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Mohan Lal Gupta
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- China has no right over Tibet. If argument of China is accepted then India and other British colonies should be part of England. Once making a colony does not mean it is a colony for ever. To give a clear message to China about the independence of Tibet , Olympic games must be boycotted.
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indu
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- for once Mr bush do the right thing ,the one which america and christians always preach about ie freedom and human rights.Mr bush you must boycott beijing olympics
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nagaraj patil
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