Students call for Boycott of Olympics 2008 & Goods from China

I wrote a few days ago:

It might also be a good time to think about what regimes China - hosting the Olympic games in 2008 - is supporting and ((North Korea, Burma...)) and where it is threatening people ((Chinese Dissidents, people in Tibet, Taiwan...)):

While the poster above was designed to show Chinese oppression of Tibet in light of next year's Olympic games, it can be applied in general to China's politics in the region. In short, China doesn't give sh*t about basic human rights.

Now students from the '88 revolt generation have indeed launched an ultimatum to China not to veto actions against Burma any longer. Quote:

Here is our demand. Chinese Government must play a leading role to stop killing spree in Burma and support UNSC intervention to Burma. The ultimatum for China to join the world's body will be 72 hours starting from September 29, 2007 9:00 am to October 2, 9:00 am US Eastern Time. If China fails to meet our demands, we have decided to wage you the following global campaigns.
1. Boycott 2008 Olympic campaign
2. Boycott China's products.

Please visit our campaign at this link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc2za8K1RUs

Source: http://burmamyanmargenocide.blogspot.com/2007/09/ultimatum-to-china-due-oct-2-900am.html

((Note that the links also contain the logos of Western oil companies Total and Chevron/Unocal, I wrote about this earlier, one good source is the movie Total Denial, link here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0976178/  ))

While it may be naive to call for an import of Chinese goods ((even though a product doesn't say 'Made in China' chances are that the components were made in China)) the boycott of the Olympics would show a strong sign to the Chinese leadership.

Several other groups ((Tibet, people concerned about Darfur/Sudan)) have called for action before. This is not the first time China is involved and protecting the worst offenders of freedom of speech and free media.

Out of 168 countries ranked by 'Reporters without Frontiers' in terms of media access/freedom, China ((and 'friends' Birma and North Korea)) occupy the last 5 spots...

Why don't these countries organize a nice, little 5-way olympics in 2008 among themselves ? Then they will be happy to know the majority will get nice, shiny medals.

((Source: http://www.reporter-ohne-grenzen.de/rangliste-2006.html  - And yes, I'm aware of some of the criticism this organization got, http://www.monde-diplomatique.de/pm/.home_edi3.php ((German)), but overall the results sound fine and have been confirmed by various other human-rights organizations.))