1136: Gathering storm to boycott or move the Beijing Winter Olympics. @nuryturkel, @GordonGChang,
Image: The 1936 Olympic Stadium in Berlin, Germany Nury Turkel, @nuryturkel, co-founder of the Uyghur Human Rights Project and a commissioner of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom, and Gordon Chang, @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: Gathering storm to boycott or move the Beijing Winter Olympics. The genocide of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang. Our govt trades with a country actively committing genocide. The intl community needs to take account of this. Our civilization made this mistake once before: in 1936, the camps were already being built to kill ethnic minorities. If this doesn’t awaken the intl community I don’t know what will. Then another mistake; [awarding the Olympics ] to China. Recall the Olympics in Germany. China is vulnerable; there’s a year to go; China has threatened to sanction countries that boycott, showing that China is worried. Recall also that Olympic refsed to accept Apartheid South Africa. The young Uyghur who went to Europe to train, and on returning home immediately was thrown into a concentration camp. Companies and govts are not doing what they need to do; this situation is much, much bigger than it looks. The threat of sanctions must be [attended to]. Tibetans are gathering in Dharmsala on this. Can we move the games? Possible—but how comfortable is the world in participating in this event when it rests in part on genocide. Could move the winter games to Mongolia. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9236073/China-threatens-sanctions-2022-Winter-Olympics-boycott-calls.html