Boycott ‘genocide Olympics’ in Beijing, N.J. congressman says at human rights hearing
Updated May 19, 2021;
Rep. Chris Smith, co-chair of a bipartisan House commission on human rights, kicked off a hearing on the 2022 Olympics in Beijing by calling for a worldwide boycott of the games.
“In granting Beijing host status for the Olympic games, we are crowning a barbarous regime with laurels while we should be condemning their abuse and genocide,” said Smith, R-4th Dist. “Don’t enable or sponsor the ‘Genocide Olympics.’”
Smith and Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Mass., co-chair the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission, named for the late California Democratic representative and Holocaust survivor. Their hearing Tuesday focused on holding the Olympics in a country that has cracked down on protesters in Hong Kong demanding freedom, and, according to reports, has moved more than a million Uyghurs, a Muslim minority, into re-education camps in an attempt to end their traditions and
The letter s signatories remind the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee of their charter commitments and international obligations pertaining to the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment for Genocide.
We re dealing with a government of intolerance, dictatorial, brooks no dissent, arrests people at a drop of a hat. I think there s a very strong case to be made that China should not be rewarded for its astonishingly bad behavior. British MP Sir Ian Duncan Smith, Co-chair, Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. We therefore call on governments to boycott the Beijing 2022 Games anything less will be seen as an endorsement of the Chinese Communist Party s authoritarian rule and blatant disregard for civil and human rights. A coalition of more than 180 human rights groups, in a letter to the International Olympic Committee.
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Clare Egan is an American athlete who qualified for the 2022 U.S. Olympic Team. She competes in the biathalon, a sport that combines the winter survival skills of cross-country skiing with target shooting.
As chair of the International Biathlon Union’s (IBU) athletes’ committee, Egan opposes calls for an international boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China. She believes Team USA athletes should be allowed to participate in the games so China’s alleged record of genocide and human rights abuses of its Uyghur citizens, a Muslim minority, will be spotlighted during the events scheduled for February 4-20.
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