Why Boycott Beijing Olympics? If nations care to stop genocide, political repression, prisons in Tibet that are concentration camps no different from Auschwitz: the worst most brutal regime in the world at this time! comment by Stephen Fox, Author of 2004 UN Resolution to create UN Tribunal to Prosecute China for Genocide in Tibet; if nations fail to care, then a few athletes will care enough to not participate in Beijing!

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"The situation in Tibet is a challenge to the conscience of the world," said Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of House. "If freedom-loving people throughout the world do not speak out against China and the Chinese in Tibet, we have lost all moral authority to speak out on human rights," in reacting to the unprecedented Tibetan protests against 58 years of Chinese occupation, and China's swift and brutal crackdown. The tragedy began when China invaded Tibet in 1949/1950. Before the Chinese occupation Tibet was free and peaceful. There were no Chinese settlers in Tibet and no Tibetan refugees.     

Tibet is an ancient nation created, not by wars and conquests, but by a common ancestry, culture, customs, language, beliefs and above all by geography. Tibet is distinct from neighboring countries (earning its name of the roof of the world), surrounded by the Himalayas in the south and south west, the treeless and waterless plain of the north, and deep gorges and high passes in the east. Eastern Tibetans live at 12,000 to 15,000 feet while the Chinese in Szechuan province live near sea level.  At the time of Chinese invasion 58 years ago, there stood outside Jokhang, the holiest temple in Tibet, a stone pillar with the Tibet-China treaty signed in 821 A.D. establishing the China-Tibet border as the river at Dartsedo, known in Chinese as Kanding. The treaty concluded: "Tibetans shall live happily in Tibet and Chinese shall live happily in China."    

Tibetan Emperor Trisong Deutsen established Buddhism as the state religion and Tibetan soldiers were disbanded to civilian status along Tibet's borders. Since then, Tibetans have engaged in spiritual pursuits, rather than military might. Later Buddhism was seen as weakening the state and an attempt was made to revive Tibet's ancient religion, Bon, but Tibetans rejected that.     China was conquered repeatedly, in spite of its Great Wall. Foreign Mongol and later Manchu rulers subjugated the Chinese, used non-Chinese language for official communication, and feared Chinese rebellion. In the last century China suffered under hegemony of Western colonial powers and Imperial Japan. When the Chinese became independent under Mao's Communist rule, there was a widespread belief fostered by Chinese themselves, that under Chinese rule, people would be free and that the Chinese would be good neighbors.

Had the great Chinese civilization and soul survived centuries of subjugation?

 After the Chinese invasion they waited in eastern Tibet near Drichu River, and forced the government of Tibet to enter into negotiations. The Tibetan delegates were made to sign under duress a "17-point agreement on the liberation of Tibet." China guaranteed under this treaty “. . . the Tibetan people have the right of exercising national regional autonomy" and that the Chinese government "will not alter the existing political system in Tibet."    

Tibetans were swiftly denied the right to self-government. The lives and liberty of the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama and Tibet's officials were threatened and/or deprived. More than 1.2 million Tibetans (out of a population of six million) have been killed over the past six decades; more than 6,000 monasteries were destroyed and cultural artifacts destroyed or sold. This has been the Chinese "liberation”!    

On March 10, 1959 Tibetan people rose up against Chinese occupation. At that time Lhasa, capital of Tibet, was occupied by Chinese soldiers promising to "liberate" the Tibetans and "make Tibetans the masters of their fate." There were no Chinese settlers who control commerce including brothels as they do today, there were no Chinese prisons and sadistic prison guards and military thugs as there are today. Yet, for Tibetans it was clear that Chinese occupation would bring death, diseases, destruction and enslavement.    

Fifty years later, China is a superpower and is to host the Olympics in August of 2008. China's power extends from satellites in space to your local Wal-Mart, from the halls of the dignitaries of the United Nations to the starving refugees of Darfur. It is right and necessary that the world see China's hidden face.     

On March 10, 2008, a few unarmed Tibetan monks engaged in a peaceful rally and sit-in. Chinese vastly outnumber Tibetans in Lhasa, and throughout Tibet. The Chinese control the government, establishments of commerce, the courts and the police and prisons, and above all, the paramilitary and the military forces. Any Tibetan who protests, calls for freedom and justice, or honors the Dalai Lama, knows full well that the Chinese will respond brutally.     

Yet protest they did. Tibetan national flags flew again and monks, youths, men and omen, on foot and on horseback, across the length and width of Tibet, rose up against Chinese rule, arbitrary arrests, racial discrimination, the theft of Tibetan ancestral homes and lands, and daily indignities great and small. Tibet's clean air, water, and fragile but sustainable ecosystem, is being befouled by mass population transfers. Tibetans do not want Beijing air and Shanghai pollution.    

The Chinese government responded by demonizing the Dalai Lama and Tibetans demands for human rights. China's premier Wen Jiabao has stated that he would welcome an independent investigation because he has “evidence.” Tibetans and supporters have asked him to show the evidence and allow news media to return to gather the facts. Yet China has continued to ape Western wanted posters for Tibetan protesters, and revived Stalinist show trials.    

China is not only hosting the Olympics but as a member of the United Nations is obliged to uphold the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states, in part: "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights...Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person...Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defense." But China has imposed a collective punishment on Tibetan population by locking down Tibetan homes and areas and surrounding them with armed soldiers and vehicles. A day after arrest, Tibetans were paraded before cameras as guilty. Officials addressed Tibetans as serfs and colonial subjects.       

As the Olympic torch makes its way to honor the best in the human spirit and body, Chinese military trucks bristling with armed soldiers are terrorizing the Tibetans who were promised liberation. Tibetans were blacklisted before arrest and found guilty the next day. The communist oligarchy who rules China and Tibet wants to be a global power, yet the government policies that brought out the Tibetan protests are not isolated local aberrations. The Tiananmen Square massacre, the creation of bogus party heroes, the poisoning of pet food, tooth paste, children's toys, fake cancer medications and blood thinner pills, and helping the perpetrators of Darfur and Burma massacres spring from the same wounded Chinese soul.      

Many Chinese have spoken up for free Tibet because they have gotten over a mentality victimized by centuries of foreign subjugation. China’s future depends on its honoring treaties, whether with ancient Tibetan kings or modern United Nations, and living by the universal declaration of human rights. Please ask for monitoring of human rights and open and fair trials by contacting: 

> UN Secretary General 

> International Court of Justice 

> Red Cross, Geneva

> Chinese Embassy

> Tibetan Government in exile

> Olympics Committee

> Your state reps

Submitter: Stephen Fox

Submitters Website: https://www.facebook.com/groups/592985284186083/

Submitters Bio:

Early in the 2016 Primary campaign, I started a Facebook group: Bernie Sanders: Advice and Strategies to Help Him Win! As the primary season advanced, we shifted the focus to advancing Bernie's legislation in the Senate, particularly the most critical one, to protect Oak Flat, sacred to the San Carlos Apaches, in the Tonto National Forest, from John McCain's efforts to privatize this national forest and turn it over to Rio Tinto Mining, an Australian mining company whose record by comparison makes Monsanto look like altar boys, to be developed as North America's largest copper mine. This is monstrous and despicable, and yet only Bernie's Save Oak Flat Act (S2242) stands in the way of this diabolical plan.

We added "2020" to the title.


I am an art gallery owner in Santa Fe since 1980 selling Native American painting and NM landscapes, specializing in modern Native Ledger Art.


I have always been intensely involved in politics, going back to the mid's 1970's, being a volunteer lobbyist in the US Senate for the Secretary General of the United Nations, then a "snowball-in-hell" campaign for US Senate in NM in the late 70's, and for the past 20 years have worked extensively to pressure the FDA to rescind its approval for aspartame, the neurotoxic artificial sweetener metabolized as formaldehyde. This may be becoming a reality to an extent in California, which, under Proposition 65, is considering requiring a mandatory Carcinogen label on all aspartame products, although all bureaucracies seem to stall under any kind of corporate pressure.


Bills to ban aspartame were in the State Senates of New Mexico and Hawaii, but were shut down by corporate lobbyists (particularly Monsanto lobbyists in Hawaii and Coca Cola lobbyists in New Mexico).


For several years, I was the editor of New Mexico Sun News, and my letters to the editor and op/eds in 2016 have appeared in NM, California, Wisconsin, New York, Maryland, the Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, and many international papers, on the subject of consumer protection. Our best issue was 10 days before Obama won in 2008, when we published a special early edition of the paper declaring that Obama Wins! This was the top story on CNN for many hours, way back then....


My highest accomplishments thus far are

1. a plan to create a UN Secretary General's Pandemic Board of Inquiry, a plan that is in the works and might be achieved even before the 75th UN General Assembly in September 2020.


2. Now history until the needs becomes clear to the powers who run the United Nations: a UN Resolution to create a new Undersecretary General for Nutrition and Consumer Protection, strongly supported ten years ago by India and 53 cosponsoring nations, but shut down by the US Mission to the UN in 2008. To read it, google UNITED NATIONS UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL FOR NUTRITION, please.


These are not easy battles, any of them, and they require a great deal of political and journalistic focus. OpEdNews is the perfect place for those who have a lot to say, so much that they exceed the limiting capacities of their local and regional newspapers. Trying to go beyond the regional papers seems to require some kind of "inside" credentials, as if you had to be in a club of corporate-accepted writers, and if not, you are "from somewhere else," a sad state of corporate induced xenophobia that should have no place in America in 2020!

This should be a goal for every author with something current to say: breaking through yet another glass ceiling, and get your say said in editorial pages all over America. Certainly, this was a tool that was essentially ignored in 2016, and cannot be ignored in the big elections of 2020.


In my capacity as Editor of the Santa Fe Sun News, Fox interviewed Mikhail Gorbachev: http://www.prlog.org/10064349-mikhail-gorbachev