International Olympic Committee President: IOC, Athletes ‘Must Be Neutral’ on Uyghur, Human Rights Abuses
In a move that both defies the mission statement of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and presents an apathetic middle finger to those directly affected by human rights abuses around the world, the head of the IOC vowed to stay “politically neutral” on China’s alleged human rights abuses.
Thomas Bach, the current IOC President – speaking before the opening ceremony at the Winter Olympic games in Beijing, said not only would he remain neutral but that all participating athletes should do so as well, lest the games are diminished should the subjects of the Uyghurs and genocide come to pass.
“If we are taking a political standpoint, and we are getting in the middle of tensions and dispute and confrontations of political powers, then we are putting the games at risk,” Bach said. “If, at the end, you would have Olympic games only between national Olympic committees whose governments agree on every political situation, the games would lose their universality, and with the universality, they would lose their mission. And that would lead to the end of the Olympic games.”
Forced Uyghur labor and the Communist Chinese government’s repression of the Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong, and other minority groups, have been in the news in the weeks leading up to the games.
While criticism of the IOC and participating countries has grown in recent weeks over the provable litany of human rights abuses at the hands of the Communist Chinese, Bach said the competition must be viewed separately.
“The mission of these Olympic games, like any Olympic games, is bringing the world together in peaceful competition – uniting humankind in all of our diversity, always building bridges, never ever erecting walls,” Bach said.
Rule 50 of the IOC bylaws prohibit demonstrations and political, religious, or racial propaganda by Olympic participants, although political statements over the years – including statements on racism, gender discrimination, and human rights abuses – have been made from the medals stands.
Earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), joined in Bach’s blind eye toward human rights abuses including slavery and genocide, saying publicly that US athletes shouldn’t criticize the Communist Chinese human rights abuses while in Beijing. She warned them not to risk "incurring the anger of the Chinese government."
Why This Is Important
Turning a blind eye to human rights abuses is never the answer. In fact, the act of ignoring people facing illegal detention, torture, mortal aggression, and genocide is an act beyond cowardice. Then, we have seen this exact moral cowardice from almost every international organization from the International Olympic Committee to the United Nations consistently over the years.
Bach’s sentiment about the International Olympics “bringing the world together in peaceful competition; uniting humankind in all of our diversity – always building bridges, never ever erecting walls,” is an altruistic statement, but one that exists in the moral relativism of an unattainable Utopia.
The IOC should be an organization that spotlights the evils of the world for if it doesn’t it facilitates the very blind eye to those evils through which the useless international globalist sphere currently sees.
By creating limits to the IOC’s “inclusion diversity” to exclude countries that commit acts of genocide, possess a political prisoner class, tolerate religious persecution, embrace slavery and human trafficking, or oppress based on gender – to name but a few of the subjects that pertain to human rights, the IOC would actually be facilitating a means by which to attain their mission statement goals. As it stands, that mission statement is a joke.
As an aside – and to call out the international organization community, since the creation of the United Nations and its Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, there have been 15 acts of genocide – including the genocides in Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, Uganda, Cambodia and against the Yazidis, Guatamaleans, Bangladeshis, and the Isaaqs, to name but a few. So, where the moral authority to address the issue is concerned, the international community has none, zero. They have failed to both prevent and stop each ac of genocide since the end of World War II.
But moving the focus back onto the IOC and Mr. Bach’s hollow statement of acquiescence to the genocidal Communist Chinese 2022 Winter Olympics hosts. If world community and peaceful symbiosis are the goals, why are both the 2022 Winter and Summer games being hosted by Communist China? For that matter, why are any contemporary Olympic games being held in first-world countries?
If enjoining world cultures in a cohesive body is the goal – along with establishing the basis for sustainable peace around the world, shouldn’t the IOC be scouting locations for the games in countries that would actually benefit from the spotlight? When was the last time the IOC considered Chile, India, or Egypt?
What would the political landscape look like in Ukraine right now if that country was the host nation of the 2022 Winter Olympics? Do you think Russia’s Vladimir Putin would be amassing troops at its border?
For that matter, if Taiwan were hosting the games, would the Communist Chinese be saber-rattling an invasion of that sovereign nation?
According to Eva Fu, reporting for The Epoch Times:
“With this glitzy show, the Chinese Communist Party is trying to take the world’s attention away from the much grimmer realities, including detention, torture, and death taking place mere miles away from the Olympic venues...”
An interactive map featured in that article denotes “persecution hotspots” in and around Beijing. Erping Zhang, a spokesperson for the Falun Dafa Information Center – the creators of the map, said the map provides “a glimpse inside the places the Chinese Communist Party does not want you to see” and the “proximity of Olympic glory to terrible human suffering highlighting the tragic and often deceptive rule of the Chinese Communist Party.”
“There is no other regime on earth that has the audacity, and international clout, to host the games while simultaneously detaining such large numbers of prisoners of conscience in settings ripe with abuse and torture,” Zhang said.
The only reason the Communist Chinese have the aforementioned “audacity” and “clout” is that organizations like the IOC and the UN, globalists facilitators at the World Economic Forum and International Monetary Fund, multinational corporations like Nike, Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, and Apple, and cowardly, bought politicians like US President Joe Biden (D), and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) pay nothing but lip service to the serious subject of Communist China’s human rights abuses.
That leaves the righting of this wrong – that leaves the obligation of coming to the aid of those facing genocide – to you and me.
It may be a monumental task, but being able to look into the eyes of someone who was saved from death’s promise to hear them say “thank you” will be well worth the cost of the blood and treasure needed to right this wrong.
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