The
United States Religious Freedom watchdog has warned about the potential scaling
up of genocide and crimes against humanity by the Chinese Communist Party after
the ongoing Beijing Olympic games.
The
US Commission for International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) experts in a podcast
over the weekend explained a pattern of genocide atrocities that dictatorial
governments have always taken after hosting Olympic games.
“Olympic games
history appears to have a disturbing definitive to genocidal dictatorial
regimes," said Nury Turkel the Vice-Chair at USCIRF with examples
that after the 1936 Olympics, genocidal Hitler invaded the rest of Europe while
after 2008 and 2012 in Russia, Putin invaded Georgia, and Ukraine respectively”
Mr. Turkel
warned that “none knows what China will do after the Beijing Olympics” and blamed
the International Olympics Committee for not learning lessons to deny dictators
from hosting the games which they use to clean their image and then do
atrocities.
“The Chinese
government's goal for hosting this global event is to achieve a good image and
the business community to buy our silence, … whitewash the ongoing genocide and
crimes against humanity against the Uyghur,” Turkel said.
Rights-concerned
nations including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, UK, India,
Australia, Lithuania, Kosovo, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia among others,
boycotted the controversial Beijing Olympics.
The boycott was informed by several USCIRF reports of genocide crimes against ethnic Uyghur
people in China and human rights abuses against Hongkong.
The communist government
has warned all participants and delegates not to talk about China politics and
are all subjected to severe surveillance, a situation for which the US Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned participants not to take their mobile
gadgets to China.
Naomi Kikoler,
Director of the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum advocated for more transparency in
selecting a hosting country and deliberately disregarding countries that abuse
human rights.
“There should be
a very serious collective interrogation and assessment of the credibility of
the IOC and its selection process,” she said.
“Countries that
we believe there are crimes against humanity and genocide simply cannot be
allowed to host the Olympics” she added.
Nury Turkel describes
the restriction situation at the two weeks Beijing Olympics ending on 20th February
2022 as regrettable.
“Relocation or
postponement would give the Chinese Communist Party another opportunity to
correct their mistakes [but it didn’t happen] and people can see the games are
a mistake”
Since 2014, the
Chinese government, under Xi Jinping, has been
accused of policies that have incarcerated more than an estimated one
million Uyghurs in internment camps without any legal
process.
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