Uyghurs Lash Out At International Olympics Committee Ahead Of Beijing Games Opening

January 28, 2022

Uyghur activists denounced the Chinese government and criticised the role of international organisations on Thursday for allowing Beijing to hold the Winter Olympics which begins next week. Uyghur activists said that the International Olympics Committee legitimized atrocities committed towards them by the Chinese Communist Party just like it did by legitimizing the Olympics hosted by Hitler in 1936 when the Third Reich ruled Germany.

“International Olympic Committee has legitimized Chinese atrocities, just as they did with the Nazis at the 1936 Olympics. Chinese Communist Party will utilize the Olympics to whitewash the Genocide of Uyghurs, Tibetans, and other persecuted populations,” Uyghur activist Ilshat Hassan Kokbore said during a webinar titled – CCP’s Uyghur Genocide and Diplomatic Boycott of the Beijing Olympics. Ilshat, a survivor himself, said that China never shared a border with India before it annexed Xinjiang and Tibet. He said that he was arrested and tortured by Chinese police on several occasions. Ilshat also revealed that he was tortured by the Chinese authorities who electrocuted him several times during his imprisonment. He said that a Chinese mob even killed his brother in broad daylight.

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