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Whereas hundreds, possibly thousands, of North Koreans 
have been detained by the Chinese authorities and forc-
ibly returned across the border where they face arbitrary 
detention, torture, and even summary execution; 
Whereas in 2004, Mr. Vitit Muntarbhorn, the United Nations 
Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in North Korea, 
concluded that because North Korea considers fleeing the 
country a criminal offense punishable by death, North 
Koreans who have fled to other countries should be con-
sidered ‘‘refugees sur place’’, and therefore China, as a 
signatory to 1951 United Nations Convention on Refu-
gees and its 1969 Protocol, should not repatriate refu-
gees to North Korea; 
Whereas the Chinese regime continues to violate its commit-
ments under the 1951 United Nations Convention on 
Refugees and its 1969 Protocol by repatriating North 
Korean refugees against their will to North Korea, where 
such refugees face imprisonment, torture, and at times 
execution, for the crime of leaving their country, rather 
than allowing them safe passage to countries like the Re-
public of Korea where such refugees would have auto-
matic citizenship, and the United States which has of-
fered them resettlement; 
Whereas Chinese security officials, rather than working with 
the humanitarian community to help these refugees, hunt 
down and jail humanitarian workers who try to feed and 
shelter refugees, including United States citizen Steve 
Kim of Huntington, New York, and South Korean, Japa-
nese, and Chinese citizens; 
Whereas the Chinese regime refuses to allow the United Na-
tions High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the 
internationally-recognized organization whose sole func-
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tion is to help refugees, access to the North Korean refu-
gees in China and denies the refugees access to the 
UNHCR and therefore to much needed assistance; 
Whereas China continues to hold the 11th Panchen Lama, 
who was selected by the Dalai Lama; 
Whereas the Panchen Lama was only 6 years old when he 
was taken away by the Chinese authorities and is held in 
a secret location; 
Whereas according to Amnesty International, China con-
tinues to execute political prisoners and nonviolent of-
fenders, and accounts for over 80 percent of all execu-
tions documented in the world; 
Whereas Chinese authorities have engaged in removing or-
gans from executed prisoners as well as Falun Gong 
practitioners held in detention, frequently without the 
consent of the prisoners, the Falun Gong practitioners, or 
the families of both; 
Whereas China continues to allow forced abortion and steri-
lization to enforce its ‘‘One Child’’ policy, as per family 
population control measures; 
Whereas according to United States Department of State’s 
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, 
the Chinese regime’s birth planning policies retain harsh-
ly coercive elements in law and practice; 
Whereas the laws restrict the rights of families to choose the 
number of children they have and the period of time be-
tween births; 
Whereas the penalties for violating these laws are strict, leav-
ing some women little choice but to abort pregnancies; 
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Whereas in addition, the implementation of these laws by 
local officials has resulted in serious violations of human 
rights; 
Whereas reports of forced sterilization and abortions, in viola-
tion of the national law, continue to be documented in 
rural areas; 
Whereas in 2007, officials in Chongqing municipality and in 
Fujian Province reportedly forcibly sterilized women; 
Whereas according to the Department of State’s Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, the Chinese 
regime consistently blocked access to Internet sites it 
deemed controversial, such as sites discussing Tibetan 
independence, underground religious and spiritual organi-
zations, democracy activists, and the 1989 Tiananmen 
massacre; 
Whereas the Chinese regime at times blocked access to se-
lected Internet sites operated by major foreign news out-
lets, health organizations, and educational institutions; 
Whereas China’s Internet control system reportedly employs 
tens of thousands of persons; 
Whereas according to the Department of State’s Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, sexual and 
physical abuse and extortion were reported in some de-
tention centers; 
Whereas Falun Gong activists reported that police raped fe-
male practitioners, including an incident in November 
2005 at the Dongchengfang police station in Tunzhou 
City, Hebei Province, in which two women were raped 
while in detention; 
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Whereas according to Amnesty International, China executes 
political prisoners from the Uighur ethnic minority in the 
Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region; 
Whereas there are concerns that abuses committed against 
the Uighur ethnic minority could amount to genocide; 
Whereas according to the Department of State’s Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, the Chinese 
regime has not provided a comprehensive, credible ac-
count of all those killed, missing, or detained in connec-
tion with the violent suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen 
demonstrations; 
Whereas there are nongovernmental organization reports of 
hundreds, if not thousands, who died during the crack-
down against the Tiananmen demonstrations; 
Whereas according the Department of State’s Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, since the 
crackdown on Falun Gong began in 1999, estimates of 
the numbers of Falun Gong adherents who have died in 
custody because of torture, abuse, and neglect range from 
several hundred to a few thousand; 
Whereas in March 2006, United Nations Special Rapporteur 
Manfred Nowak reported that Falun Gong practitioners 
accounted for 66 percent of victims of alleged torture 
while in custody by the Chinese regime; 
Whereas according to the Department of State’s Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, regulations 
for committing a person into the psychiatric facility at 
Ankang, China, were not clear; 
Whereas credible reports indicate that a number of political 
and trade union activists, underground religious believers, 
persons who repeatedly petitioned the Chinese regime, 
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members of the banned China Democratic Party, and 
Falun Gong adherents were incarcerated in such psy-
chiatric facilities during 2006; 
Whereas China is preparing to host the Summer Olympic 
Games in August 2008, the most honorable, venerated, 
and prestigious international sporting event, and China 
has selected ‘‘One World, One Dream’’ as a slogan for 
those games; 
Whereas China should act consistently with the Olympic 
standard of preserving human dignity for its citizens and 
for the people of the Darfur region of Sudan, Burma, 
and North Korea; 
Whereas the spirit of the Olympics, which is to bring together 
nations and people from all over the world in peace, is 
incompatible with Chinese actions; and 
Whereas China continues to seriously abuse the rights of its 
citizens and continues to assist Sudan, Burma, and 
North Korea in committing human rights abuses against 
their citizens: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That— 
(1) it is the duty and responsibility of the 
United States to take effective steps to stop serious 
human rights abuses by the Chinese regime against 
its citizens and to stop the Chinese regime from sup-
porting serious human rights abuses by Sudan, 
Burma, and North Korea against their citizens; and 
(2) it is the sense of the House of Representa-
tives that the United States Government should take 
immediate steps to boycott the Summer Olympic 
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Games in Beijing in August 2008 unless the Chinese 
regime stops engaging in serious human rights 
abuses against its citizens and stops supporting seri-
ous human rights abuses by the Governments of 
Sudan, Burma, and North Korea against their citi-
zens. 
Æ 
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