IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 610 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States 
Government should take immediate steps to boycott the Summer Olympic 
Games in Beijing in August 2008 unless the Chinese regime stops 
engaging in serious human rights abuses against its citizens and stops 
supporting serious human rights abuses by the Governments of Sudan, 
Burma, and North Korea against their citizens. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 3, 2007 
Mr. ROHRABACHER (for himself, Mr. PITTS, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. 
MCCOTTER, Mr. DOOLITTLE, Mr. BURTON of Indiana, Mr. WOLF, and 
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey) submitted the following resolution; which was 
referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the United States Government should take immediate 
steps to boycott the Summer Olympic Games in Beijing 
in August 2008 unless the Chinese regime stops engag-
ing in serious human rights abuses against its citizens 
and stops supporting serious human rights abuses by 
the Governments of Sudan, Burma, and North Korea 
against their citizens. 
Whereas the Games of the XI Olympiad in Berlin in 1936 
showed that the integrity of the host country is of the ut-
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most importance so as not to stain the participating ath-
letes or the character of the Games; 
Whereas the Chinese regime regularly denies the right to 
freedom of conscience, expression, religion, and associa-
tion; 
Whereas the Chinese regime also holds thousands of political 
prisoners without charge or trial, including democracy ac-
tivists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious leaders, 
journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists, Uighurs, 
unregistered church members, Falun Gong practitioners, 
and political dissidents; 
Whereas the Chinese regime has long-standing economic and 
military ties with Sudan and continues to strengthen 
these ties, including providing military assistance, in spite 
of the ongoing human rights abuses amounting to geno-
cide in Darfur, Sudan; 
Whereas China reportedly purchases as much as 70 percent 
of Sudan’s oil, currently has at least $3 billion invested 
in the Sudanese energy sector, for a total of $10 billion 
since the 1990s; is building infrastructure in Sudan and 
provided funds for a presidential palace in Sudan at a re-
ported cost of approximately $20 million; and has report-
edly cancelled approximately $100 million in debt owed 
by the Sudanese Government; 
Whereas the Chinese regime has long-standing political, eco-
nomic, and military ties with Burma and continues to 
strengthen these ties in spite of serious human rights 
abuses and house arrest of Noble Peace Price winner 
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi; 
Whereas in May 2007, the military junta in Rangoon ex-
tended for one year the house arrest order against Daw 
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Aung San Suu Kyi and continues to deny access to her 
by United States Government officials and others in the 
international community, including representatives of 
human rights organizations; 
Whereas China is one of the largest importers of Burma’s 
natural resources, extraction of which has led to destruc-
tion of villages, increased human rights abuses against ci-
vilians, particularly ethnic minorities, and the rampant 
use of forced labor; 
Whereas China has sold Burma’s military regime over $2 bil-
lion worth of arms and military equipment since 1989, 
which have been used to commit grave human rights vio-
lations and mass atrocities against Burma’s ethnic mi-
nority civilians resulting in the destruction of over 3,000 
villages; 
Whereas China’s steadfast support for Burma’s military re-
gime in the United Nations Security Council, including 
by vetoing a United Nations Security Council resolution 
on Burma, and other international fora is emboldening 
the regime to further perpetrate economic mismanage-
ment, crackdowns, and attacks on civilians that harm the 
stability of the region; 
Whereas according to Amnesty International, China holds 
more than a quarter of a million people under the ‘‘Re- 
Education through Labor’’ detention system in labor 
camps, without benefit of charge or trial; 
Whereas local police officers in China are empowered to im-
prison people under this detention system; 
Whereas in the face of a serious food shortage and political 
repression, thousands of North Koreans have fled across 
the border to China; 
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