Since February 2003, Sudanese-backed Janjaweed militias have murdered roughly 200,000 people in the Darfur region of the Sudan. Over 2.5 million people have fled the country, including 200,000 who have fled to Chad, where many live in refugee camps that fail to provide even the most basic of necessities.

The People’s Republic of China has been one of the regime’s largest backers, supplying Sudan with weapons, technology and expertise that has been used in the Darfur. In addition, China has supplied the money to improve Sudan’s economy in the face of this genocide, including improving Sudan’s oil industry (Sudan’s largest export), and funding capital improvements in Sudan, including a new presidential palace for dictator and war criminal Omar al-Bashir.

Today, the International Olympic Committee has rewarded China by granting them the right to host the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. I encourage you not to stand for this.

Please don’t watch or support the Chinese Olympics.