Uyghur organizations applaud the U.S. diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics

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December 6, 2021

Uyghur rights organizations are applauding the U.S. government’s decision not to send any diplomatic or official representatives to Beijing for next year’s Winter Olympics.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the diplomatic boycott was prompted by the Chinese government’s “ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,” referring to the region in southwest China with a large population of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, such as Kazakhs.

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