{"id":972,"date":"2021-12-07T17:45:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/?p=972"},"modified":"2021-12-07T17:45:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T14:45:39","slug":"uyghur-organizations-applaud-the-u-s-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-beijing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/uyghur-organizations-applaud-the-u-s-diplomatic-boycott-of-the-beijing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"UYGHUR ORGANIZATIONS APPLAUD THE U.S. DIPLOMATIC BOYCOTT OF THE BEIJING OLYMPICS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NPR<\/a>. 6 December 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below is an article published by NPR<\/a>. Photo:Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Uyghur rights organizations are applauding the U.S. government\u2019s decision\u00a0not to send any diplomatic or official representatives\u00a0to Beijing for next year\u2019s Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Monday that the diplomatic boycott was prompted by the Chinese government\u2019s \u201congoing genocide and crimes against humanity in Xinjiang and other human rights abuses,\u201d referring to the region in southwest China with a large population of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, such as Kazakhs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Uyghur Human Rights Project, a U.S. advocacy organization promoting the rights of the Uyghurs and other Muslim groups in Xinjiang, hailed the U.S. diplomatic boycott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organization emphasized that all governments should refuse to participate in the \u201cspectacle of 21st-century genocide games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Chinese government is using the 2022 Winter Games as a showcase for its world leadership. A diplomatic boycott sends a strong signal: governments refuse to give a green light to the Uyghur genocide,\u201d Omer Kanat, executive director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Campaign for Uyghurs, an organization advocating for the human rights and freedoms of Uyghurs, said \u201cthe Uyghur genocide has cast a shadow over these games and made it morally untenable for them to occur in standard operation.\u201dArticle continues after sponsor message<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe reject that there can be a symbol of peace when the camps and surveillance apparatuses there stand as monuments to atrocity. We reject the Olympic games in the midst of a genocide,\u201d the organization\u2019s executive director Rushan Abbas said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abbas said this move sends a solid warning to Chinese officials that the diplomatic boycott shows the U.S. rejects the Chinese government\u2019s conduct, and said she hopes other governments also join the boycott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Likewise, the World Uyghur Congress, an international organization calling for Uyghur rights, said<\/a> \u201cwhile we welcome the announcement by the US as an important first step in ensuring that the international community stops legitimising the Chinese government\u2019s genocide and crimes against humanity, we continue to urge governments around the world to take further bilateral and multilateral action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The announcement made Monday by the White House comes nearly two months before the games are set to begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even though the Biden administration will not send any government representatives to the Games, U.S. athletes are still expected to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe athletes on Team USA have our full support,\u201d Psaki told reporters during Monday\u2019s press briefing. \u201cWe will be behind them 100% as we cheer them on from home. We will not be contributing to the fanfare of the Games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rights groups have sounded the alarm for years about the Chinese government\u2019s treatment of Muslim minorities in Xinjiang, which they say dramatically worsened starting in 2017. According to Amnesty International, hundreds of thousands of people there are subject to mass imprisonment and torture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cU.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these Games as business as usual,\u201d Psaki said, in the face of China\u2019s \u201cegregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang. And we simply can\u2019t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

China\u2019s government has criticized the boycott, saying the U.S. should \u201crefrain from politicizing sports.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR. 6 December 2021 Below is an article published by NPR. Photo:Frederic J. Brown\/AFP via Getty Images. Uyghur rights organizations are applauding the U.S. government\u2019s decision\u00a0not to send any diplomatic or official representatives\u00a0to Beijing for next year\u2019s Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":973,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/972\/revisions\/973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dukva.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}