The BBC reported last week that ethnic Uighur women and other Muslims in the western province of Xinjiang were being systematically raped and tortured. The former US secretary of state Mike Pompeo said before leaving office last month that China was committing ongoing genocide against the Uighurs, a statement backed by the Biden administration.The UN Genocide Convention lists removing children, preventing births, killing members of a group, seriously harming them or putting them in conditions calculated to destroy them as evidence of genocide.
Den undfallande positionen världen har mot den kinesiska regimen är skrämmande, och inte minst bristen på ställningstagande inom sportvärlden. Känner mig själv skyldig som skriver så mycket om kinesisk bordtennis, men ytterst sällan om kinesiskt samhälle och politik. Bordtenniskommuniteten och det internationella bordtennisförbundet har att bättra sig här.
⬤ The Guardian: MPs urge British Olympians to boycott 2022 Beijing Winter Games.
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