The following is a project made by our classmates who specialized in Human Rights. So you all can look at the fact found with some references followed.
I put this subject as China's support to Burmese military junta is quite large. And we need International Support and understanding around the globe.

"Boycott China and 2008 Olympic"

China has long been synonymous with human rights abuses, both domestic and foreign. China has one of the highest ratios of death sentences per capita, due to a questionable judiciary system. A total of 68 crimes, including non-violent crimes such as robbery, serious drug offenses and tax fraud, are punishable by death. In 2004, a Chinese legislator estimated that 10,000 people were executed a year. This is exacerbated by the fact that Chinese trials do not meet human right standards. Defendants are presumed guilty until proven innocent, have restricted access to lawyers and evidence obtained via torture is considered valid by the court. In the case of human rights activist Chen Guangcheng in 2006, local police prevented his defence lawyers and wife from attending. The trial was completed in one day and the verdict was announced within a week, with Chen Guangcheng being found guilty and being sentenced to over four years in prison.¹

Even acts that do not break the Criminal Code are punishable, often by being sent to a “Re-education Through Labour” camp for a period of one to four years. RTL sentences are handed down by police without any kind of judiciary review and can be handed down for any act that the police deems to be disturbing social order. This includes innocuous acts, evidenced by a man being given a 2.5-year sentence after police searched his home and found literature about Falun Gong, a banned religion.

One of the most well known on-going abuses by the Chinese government is the systematic destruction of Tibet’s culture. Led by Mao Zedong, the Chinese army invaded Tibet in 1950 and quickly overcame a poorly equipped army, occupying Tibet ever since. In the five and a half decades since, it is estimated that the Chinese forces have destroyed over 6,000 temples and monasteries and killed over a million Tibetans, causing countless more, including the Dalai Lama, to flee into exile. The Chinese government has also given incentives to Chinese families to settle in Tibet. Coupled with the quarter of a million troops still stationed in Tibet, this means that Tibetans are now outnumbered by millions in their own land and have lower income, life expectancy and literacy rates than their Chinese counterparts.

Due to the strict regulation by the government, it is extremely hard for the Chinese people to learn about any of these instances of abuse. All domestic press organizations come under the government’s own Central Propaganda Department. Journalists are given low basic wages, but are able to obtain sizable bonuses by writing pieces that the CPD deem to be in keeping with the party line. On the flip side, newspapers are subject to a penalty point system that can result in the newspaper being shut down if they print too many articles considered detrimental to a “peaceful social environment.” Hundreds of websites, such as Amnesty International and other human rights sites, are also blocked by China’s internet service providers at the request of the government.

China’s foreign policy in regards to Darfur, Burma and North Korea also demonstrates numerous instances of human rights abuse and has led to the Beijing 2008 Games being nicknamed the “Genocide Games.” By arming and financing Sudan, China is playing a large role in what is widely considered the worst humanitarian crisis of the 21^st century having seen hundreds of thousands killed and millions more forced from their homes. China is the single largest supplier of weapons to the Sudan government. Not only has it provided advanced weaponry, such as AK-47s, helicopters, tanks and bombers to Khartoum, but it has also built three arms factories in Sudan itself, effectively speeding up the massacre of the people of Darfur. China is also Sudan’s largest trading partner and foreign investor, as well as the recipient of the majority of Sudanese oil. It is estimated that 70% of oil profits are used directly on weapons and providing armament to Sudan’s army and the Janjaweed.²

China has also limited the international response to Darfur. As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China has the right to veto any resolution that passes before it. China has repeatedly used this right to veto any economic sanctions that the United Nations has tried to place on Sudan’s government.

China’s actions were repeated once more after the Burma’s ruling junta cracked down on peaceful demonstrations by Buddhist monks in September. China is again the most important investor in Burma, with an estimated $2 billion in annual business between the nations. China is also the main supplier of weaponry and other military resources to the ruling party³. They are also believed to have been Burma’s major supplier ever since the failed 1988 pro-democracy demonstrations, which saw an arms embargo placed on Burma by European nations. China has also provided political safety to Burma by blocking a UN Security Council resolution to condemn the crackdown on the monks.

Equally disturbing is the repatriation of North Korean refugees. Under the North Korean Criminal Code, defectors are considered traitors and “shall be committed to a reform institution for no less than seven years. In cases where the person commits an extremely grave offense, he or she shall be given the death penalty…”⁴ This is in violation of the 1951 United Nations Convention on the Status of Refugees, which forbids the repatriation of refugees who will face persecution at home.

The prisoners are subject to horrendous conditions, including lengthy interrogation, violence and torture. They are also given little food and no medial care, leading to many deaths. Perhaps most repugnant is the treatment of pregnant women who are brought to these camps. The women are all asked if they are pregnant; if so, they are forcibly given an abortion shot that causes a miscarriage. Afterwards, the women are forced back to work. If the baby manages to survive the shot, it is either left to die or the woman is given a plastic sheet in her cell with which to suffocate her own child.⁵

Understandably, the human rights conditions in China were a major concern for the International Olympic Committee when it came to choosing what nation would host the 2008 Olympic Games. As mentioned, one of the main human rights reservation of the IOC was China’s death penalty record. Among a study of 76 nations, China had the 6^th highest number of death sentences per capita, due in large part to the fact that 68 crimes are punishable by death, including many non-violent crimes such as robbery and tax fraud. China announced that the Supreme People’s Court would review all death sentences. Prior to this announcement, lower courts could issue death sentences without the decision being approved by a high court. Some Chinese analysts believe that this could reduce the number of executions by up to 30%.⁶

While this is regarded as a positive step, there are still concerns about the lack of transparency in the Chinese judiciary system. China does not publish official statistics on death sentences and executions, so it is difficult to ascertain whether the reforms are having a major effect, leading to substantial differences in reports on the number of people executed. To attempt to assuage the doubters about free speech, China signed the United Nations’ International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which guarantees freedom of expression. China also pointed out to the IOC that Article 35 of the Chinese Constitution states "Citizens of the People’s Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the press, of assembly, of association, of procession, and of demonstration."

In keeping with these statements, China’s Olympic Bid Committee promised that the foreign media would be granted complete freedom in China, with permission to travel anywhere and interview any willing citizen or public official.

While these proposed improvements are positive, the preparations for the Olympics have also created a number of major human rights problems. The promise of media freedom is fine in theory, but has had a shaky implementation. A survey by the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China showed that journalists were detained on 38 occasions in a two-year span for covering sensitive subjects, such as HIV/AIDS, environmental issues and land disputes. These journalists have also reported being harassed and intimidated by government officials and anonymous thugs who are suspected of being undercover police officers. There is also a double standard since these new freedoms do not apply to domestic journalists. As such, Chinese translators, sources and assistants are at even more risk and are constantly monitored by the government to ensure that they are not straying from the official propaganda line, under threat of imprisonment. Additionally, China has increased regulation of domestic broadcasts and has blocked more websites and blogs than ever before, including those of NGOs such Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Human Rights In China.

Beijing has also taken some ethically questionable steps to make the city appear “cleaner.” Most notable among these steps is detaining and imprisoning those who the government deems unsavoury, including those associated with unlawful advertising or leafleting, unlicensed taxis, unlicensed businesses, vagrancy and begging. These people are arrested without any charges, trial or hearing and are sent to “Re-education Through Labour” camps. Another step is the relocation of families that live in areas that are to be used for Olympic venues. A human rights group estimates that 1.5 million Chinese have been forced to leave their homes. They are given paltry compensation and can face incarceration and even torture if they resist. Additionally, the state workers currently building the Olympic sites are overworked and are barely paid enough to cover living expenses, although China predictably diverts attention from these problems.

1 Amnesty International, China: The Olympics countdown – Failing to keep human rights promises

2 2008 Beijing Olympics' International Community, Darfur, <http://www.2008olympicsbeijing.org/darfurchina.htm>

3 Washington Post, The Saffron Olympics

4 Amnesty International, Korea: Persecuting The Starving - The Plight of North Koreans Fleeing to China, <http://web.amnesty.org/library/Index/ENGASA240032000?open&of=ENG-PRK>

5 New York Times, Defectors From North Korea Tell of Prison Baby Killings,

6 Amnesty International, Briefing On Human Rights Concerns In China