An overseas-based Uighur group urged the IOC on Thursday to reconsider holding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of what it says is China's "genocide" of the Uighur population.
An overseas-based Uighur group urged the IOC on Thursday to reconsider holding the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of what it says is China's "genocide" of the Uighur population.
More than one million ethnic Uighurs and other minorities, mostly Muslim Turkic peoples, have been herded into internment camps where they undergo political indoctrination, according to rights groups and experts. In an open letter to International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach, the Munich-based World Uyghur Congress accused China of "committing genocide, crimes against humanity and torture against the Uighur and other Turkic peoples" in Xinjiang.
"It is deeply concerning that the IOC, as an international body with strong ethical rules, has failed to acknowledge China's human rights record, given the international crimes being committed in the Uighur region at the moment, as well as in China in general," it added.
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