The Olympic Charter states that "the goal of the Olympic Movement is to direct sports to the harmonious development of humanity in order to promote a peaceful society that serves to protect human dignity."
Idman.biz reports, it was stated in the statement of the Baku Initiative Group on the violation of the principles of the Olympic Games in Paris-2024.
The statement reads:
"Although the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron and his Government present the 2024 Paris Olympic Games currently held in France as a "moment of peace and hope", French colonial and neo-colonial policies say the opposite.
According to information obtained from representatives of political parties and movements fighting for independence from Polynesia, Corsica, Melanesia, the Caribbean and the Antilles, discrimination in the employment sector and access to housing, as well as the exploitation of natural resources or, for example, under the patronage of the French Government cases of organized mass immigration have been recorded.
We present to your attention a number of cases that are completely contrary to the spirit of the Olympics:
- Poor economic development strategy in favor of French monopolists is implemented in the relevant areas: excessive food dependence of the population (more than 80% of food products come from France), high cost of living, poverty (50% of the population in French Guiana lives below the poverty line) and mass unemployment leading to all kinds of unrest (violence, arms and drug trafficking) - seriously endangering the future of these areas;
- Non-ratification of the 1989 Indigenous Peoples Convention (No. 169) (French Guiana);
- The establishment of hegemony of French culture and assimilation policy, which puts the increasingly endangered local languages in the background and imposes French curricula on local children that do not correspond to their local history, geography, cultures, or future aspirations;
- Land occupation (90% of the land of French Guiana belongs to the French state), control of millions of km2 exclusive economic zone (EEZ) (France is the second largest maritime power in the world with an EEZ of 11 million km2), for decades the youth of indigenous peoples in France the deportation policy caused an unprecedented demographic crisis in Guadeloupe and Martinique and greatly contributed to the plundering of natural resources, the plundering of their natural resources;
- The establishment of a two-tier colonial justice that criminalized all resistance and protected the corrupt (arrest of young people who fought against chlordecone poisoning and land theft in Martinique and Guadeloupe, the application of exclusive jurisdictions and detention conditions for Corsicans who tried political prisoners without recognizing this status and unequal treatment , the arrest of Mr. Herve Pinto, President of the Collective Justice Matinic Association);
- Empty seat policy after Polynesia was included in the list of countries to be decolonized again;
- Refusal of the local population to perform under the flag of their country at the Olympic Games;
- The use of territories against the will of the indigenous peoples as geostrategic military bases for war preparations by the colonial Western states, especially in the Indo-Pacific region (Polynesia, New Caledonia), as well as in the Caribbean-American region and Corsica (Solenzara base) (Guiana, Martinique, Guadeloupe);
- Failure to comply with the decolonization process as a commitment of the Noumea Agreement, thus making the Kanak a minority on their land as a result of holding an illegal referendum and enlarging the electorate, as well as numerous arrests and deportations of CCAT (Coordination Network of Territories) activists away from their relatives and families;
Considering the above, we ask rhetorical and simple questions.
Can the Olympic Games, which are a "moment of peace and hope" in the 21st century, be held in a country that subjugates nations?
Couldn't the host country of the Olympic Games remove restrictions on freedom in Kanaki and also release political prisoners? They have the right to experience this "moment of peace" in their homes, together with their young children.
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