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The acknowledgment came this week, after Premier John Horgan received a joint letter from 13 prominent human rights activists in B.C. who advocate for democracy in Hong Kong and are calling for the dismissal of one of his advisers, who recently disagreed with the genocide claims. Yee, a retired B.C. provincial court judge and former Vancouver city councillor, is co-chair of Horgan’s Chinese-Canadian Community Advisory Committee. Yee spoke to Toronto A1 Radio on March 30 and dismissed the February 22 House of Commons vote declaring the Chinese government has been committing genocide against Uyghurs in Xinjiang. “I think what they said about genocide and human rights in Xinjiang are being made up. We all know that these politicians don’t even know where Xinjiang is; that is why the so-called genocide is not according to facts,” said Yee.
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So, this is where we are right now from a moral standpoint.
The Toronto Association for Democracy in China was among a coalition of 180 rights groups, including several based in Canada, that called for a boycott Wednesday of next year s Beijing Winter Olympics.
The Games are set to open Feb. 4, 2022, despite the global pandemic.
Wednesday s call to boycott is around reported human rights abuses against ethnic minorities in China, and coalition is composed of groups representing Tibetans, Uighurs, Inner Mongolians, residents of Hong Kong and others.
The group issued an open letter to governments to support a boycott to ensure they are not used to embolden the Chinese government’s appalling rights abuses and crackdowns on dissent.
TORONTO - Cheuk Kwan wants the world to remember what happened after numerous countries considered boycotting the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, but eventually ag