IV 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 608 
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 Government of the People’s 
Republic of China 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 2, 2007 
Mr. ROHRABACHER (for himself, Mr. PITTS, and Mr. SHIMKUS) 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 Government of the People’s 
Republic of China 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. 
Whereas the Games of the XI Olympiad in Berlin in 1936 
showed that the integrity of the host country is of the ut-
most importance so as not to stain the participating ath-
letes or the character of the Games; 
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Whereas the Government of the People’s Republic of China 
regularly denies the right to freedom of conscience, ex-
pression, religion, and association; 
Whereas Chinese Government also holds thousands of polit-
ical prisoners without charge or trial, including democ-
racy activists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious 
leaders, journalists, trade unionists, Tibetan Buddhists, 
Uighurs, ‘‘unofficial’’ church members, Falun Gong prac-
titioners, and political dissidents; 
Whereas the Chinese Government 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 Dafur, Sudan; 
Whereas the Chinese Government has long-standing political, 
economic, 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 Saan Suu Kyi; 
Whereas China also vetoed a United Nations Security Council 
resolution on human rights in Burma; 
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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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 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 the 
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, and China also harvests 
organs from executed prisoners, frequently without con-
sent; 
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 Government’s birth planning policies retain 
harshly 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; 
Whereas in addition, the implementation of these laws by 
local officials has resulted in serious violations of human 
rights; 
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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 
Government 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 Government at times blocked access to 
selected Internet sites operated by major foreign news 
outlets, 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; 
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 
Uighur ethnic minority could amount to genocide; 
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Whereas according to the Department of State’s Country Re-
ports on Human Rights Practices for 2006, the Chinese 
Government has not provided a comprehensive, credible 
account 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 Government; 
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 Govern-
ment, 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, 
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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 Dafur 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 Government of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China against its citizens and to 
stop the Chinese Government from supporting seri-
ous 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 
Games in Beijing in August 2008 unless the Chinese 
Government stops engaging in serious human rights 
abuses against its citizens and stops supporting seri-
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ous human rights abuses by the Governments of 
Sudan, Burma, and North Korea against their citi-
zens. 
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