Beijing Olympics Boycott Now ‘Impossible,’ Chinese Activist Says
Jul 7th, 2008 by Ted Liptak
By Keriann Hopkins and Michael Gryboski
CNSNews.com Correspondents
July 03, 2008
(CNSNews.com) – For Chinese human rights activist Harry Wu, the politics of the Beijing Olympics are a “temporary issue,” and efforts to boycott the Olympics are “in this moment impossible.” But the eyes and ears of the world, Wu said, should still be focused on human rights abuses in Communist China.
Wu told Cybercast News Service that the Bush administration is doing the best that it can to raise the issue of human rights abuses in China, given that former President George H. W. Bush is leading the American contingent to the games.
“They knew China has a problem with human rights, problems with persecuted people,” Wu said. “What else can we do? We’re American; we do our job, that’s it.”
Wu, who spent 19 years being beaten, tortured, and starved in a Chinese prison labor camp for criticizing the Chinese Communist Party, spoke Tuesday on the politics of the upcoming Olympics, at an event hosted by the Center for National Policy, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank.
