Protest calls for Olympic boycott
Montreal’s Uyghurs and their supporters held a protest Saturday calling for an Olympic boycott. Canada has declined to send a diplomatic detachment but did nothing to stop its athletes participating, which Le Devoir’s Godin skewers in one drawing. The Uyghurs know it’s too late to change that decision but are hoping people will boycott viewing the games.
Raymond Lutz 17:58 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
“The Uyghurs know”? Is this US allies founded ISIS all over again, but in China?
Inside the US-Backed World Uyghur Congress “[Consortium News] Ajit Singh reports on the right-wing regime change entity that poses as a grassroots human rights network while seeking to destabilize China.”
Nota: Consortium News is the agency of late Robert Parry, “a finalist for the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting[5] and received the George Polk Award for National Reporting in 1984 for his work with the Associated Press on Iran-Contra, where he broke the story that the Central Intelligence Agency had provided an assassination manual to the Nicaraguan Contras”
Uatu 18:24 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
The IOC is really to blame by making the Olympics so expensive and bloated that the only cities interested in hosting are in countries run by dictatorships and/or governments riddled with corruption.
Blork 18:33 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
Bit late for an Olympic boycott innit?
Kate 19:54 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
blork, they can still try to persuade people not to watch. It’s about all they can do.
DeWolf 21:01 on 2022-02-06 Permalink
Please, Raymond, spare us the MSS-funded ‘journalism’. Saying the Uyghurs are Islamic extremists who need to be protected from themselves is simple parroting China’s propaganda line. Ajit Singh works for a publication that doxxes human rights workers, which has led them to be detained, intimidated and in some cases physically harmed – which has affected people I know personally.
Kate 10:32 on 2022-02-07 Permalink
I had wondered about that, DeWolf, thank you. Usually I find Raymond’s contributions (especially on environmental issues) valuable, but this one…