The legis­latures of Britain, the United States, Canada, Australia, Germany and Italy have passed res­ol­u­tions calling on the IOC to set aside one minute of silence at the opening ceremony of the 2012 games to remember the 11 Israeli athletes who were murdered by Palestini­an ter­ror­ists at the Olympic Games in Munich forty years ago.
We deplore the refusal of IOC President, Jacques Rogge, to heed these calls, and his insist­ence on holding a low-key memorial ceremony out of the public eye. Terrorism continues to be a scourge of humanity and it behoves all nations that value freedom, democracy and human rights to express their detest­a­tion of terrorist acts, and support for the victims, before a global audience whenever the oppor­tun­ity to do so arises.