Friends, friends, Rose Delek!
As you know, This Friday 4 February are inaugurated the Beijing Winter Games 2022.
China, Powerful country, He has once again imposed his criteria for the International Olympic Committee and the headquarters of one of the most important sporting events in the world. ¿It is worth being an accomplice of a regime that is denounced for not respecting fundamental human rights? The natural response for those who defend democracy would be not.
We are not against athletes to celebrate your event, but we denounce the leaders who decide where to do so choose ethically unpresentable countries.
Xi Jinping is known as the president of a communist dictatorship that systematically violates human rights. Organizations such as Amnesty International remind us that “there are lawyers and activists imprisoned for their peaceful work.”; Survivors of sexual aggressions to those who are punished for denouncing; It is estimated that thousands of people are executed every year; Muslim ethnic groups are systematically submitted to mass internment, torture and persecution ".
The United States has led a diplomatic boycott of Beijing 2022, which other countries such as Australia have joined, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Germany, Denmark, Netherlands, Lithuania and New Zealand. But other countries have preferred to look the other way.
Hoy, 3 February, Among the 14 h and the 17 h, one day before the opening of the Olympics, representatives of the Uyghurs, and Tibetans from Europe, We are going to demonstrate in front of the IOC headquarters in Lausanne, Swiss.
Human rights defenders and friends of Tibet are also going to demonstrate in cities around the world. In Barcelona, the demonstration is also today, Among the 18 h and the 19 h, in University Square.
The enthusiasm in which you participate in this symbolic action, But of great value to show our outrage at the submission of the world to a China who tries with these Olympics to wash their international image.
I hope peace, freedom, Dignity, Justice and respect for the environment gain terrain to repression, to wars and violence carried out by nations that impunity practice them.
¡That true democracies do not give up to China's economic power!
Thubten Wangchen
Director
Casa del Tibet Foundation of Barcelona
