Write letter to National Olympic committee

                                                                          Date _______________

Dear National Olympic Committee President,

We are writing to you to inquire how your National Olympic Committee will respond to the Chinese government’s unfulfilled promise that it would improve the human rights situation in China if the 2008 Olympics were granted to Beijing.

Principle 2 of the Charter of the Olympics that declares that the goal of Olympism is to “place sport at the service of the harmonious development of men, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation pf human dignity” and article A-1 of the Code of Ethics states that “safeguarding the dignity of the individual is a fundamental requirement of Olympism”.

 As you know, the Chinese government not only does not adhere to these principles, but it has also ignored its promise regarding the implementation of Olympics principles. Instead, it has implemented execution, torture, government-sponsored human trafficking and slave labor in East Turkistan, currently a province of northwest China. 

The Chinese government also announced that it would close the Olympic door for East Turkistan and Tibet to hide its crimes- stating that journalists’ travel to these regions would be restricted prior to and during the Olympics, and that activists hoping to champion the rights of Uyghurs and Tibetans would be barred from entering China during this time.

The Chinese government would like to hide the dramatic acceleration in executions that occurred in East Turkistan in the wake of September 11 under the justification of the “global war on terror”. The Chinese government would also like to conceal the torture that takes in East Turkistan, which is not used in any other location.

The Chinese government would also like to hide the large scale of human trafficking that is taking place within its borders, and especially the trafficking of women from East Turkistan to eastern provinces. The Chinese government is relocating a large number of young and unmarried Uyghur women girls to eastern China. Ranging in age between 14 and 25, these young women are exploited as a source of slave labor and cheap labor, and are even forced into sexual slavery. 

Terrible human rights abuses continue to take place in China today, despite human rights advocacy taking place around the world, and Uyghurs continue to suffer under the repression of the Chinese government.

As your Committee is among the institutions responsible for the promotion of the Olympic goals, you should make an effort to protect the ideals of the Olympic Games. In this context, we would like to learn your response to China’s current human rights violations in East Turkistan.

Thank you for your attention,

Signature _____________________            Name _______________________