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Beijing Olympics Spokesperson Calls Reports of Human Rights Abuses Against Uyghurs 'Lies'
Yahoo News! ^ | Thu, February 17, 2022

Posted on 02/18/2022 2:10:19 PM PST by nickcarraway

In the last regularly scheduled daily press conference for the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, a committee spokesperson got political in response to reporters' questions, saying that reports of human rights abuses against the Uyghur ethnic minority in Xinjiang were "lies."

Olympic organizing committee spokesperson Yan Jiarong and International Olympic Committee (IOC) spokesperson Mark Adams faced questions relating to controversial issues that Chinese officials have previously refused to speak about during the games, The Associated Press reported.

However, three days before the games were set to close, Yan spoke out, saying questions about reports that forced labor was being performed in camps in Xinjiang were "very much based on lies."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beijingbob; china; olympics; uyghurs
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1 posted on 02/18/2022 2:10:19 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

How much for a liver?


2 posted on 02/18/2022 2:13:04 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: nickcarraway

What Olympics?


3 posted on 02/18/2022 2:14:53 PM PST by windsorknot
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A Chicomm calling anyone else a liar is high irony.


4 posted on 02/18/2022 2:17:05 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

Liar! Liar! Chopsticks on fire!!!


5 posted on 02/18/2022 2:21:14 PM PST by NeverTyranny
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To: nickcarraway

So much for watching the Olympics ever again!


6 posted on 02/18/2022 2:23:52 PM PST by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: nickcarraway

Good, glad the yellow brothers cleared that up.


7 posted on 02/18/2022 2:28:10 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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To: nickcarraway

So sad.
The Weegers matter SO MUCH to everyone.

If they’re such a bunch of Chinee Muslims, why ain’t they
blowing up everyone’s rice bowls? Get motivated, Weegers!


8 posted on 02/18/2022 2:28:50 PM PST by humblegunner (Ain't drownin', Just wavin'...)
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To: windsorknot

“What Olympics?”

I got the distinct impression that Beijing is planning on having an Olympic games. I’m not sure when.


9 posted on 02/18/2022 2:34:47 PM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: nickcarraway

Ghost of Baghdad Bob confirmed......


10 posted on 02/18/2022 2:36:44 PM PST by cranked
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11 posted on 02/18/2022 2:37:20 PM PST by real saxophonist (Confusion will be my epitaph)
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To: humblegunner

Actually back in 2008 the Uighurs waged a bit of a civil war against the Han Chinese. There followed the predictable reprisals and the Chinese also introduced a particular form of mass murder.

The Chinese practice is to rape Muslim girls and women and then send them back to their families who murder the rape victims ‘becuz Izlam’.

All I can say in this case is pass the popcorn. I really don’t care who wins this one.


12 posted on 02/18/2022 2:41:03 PM PST by MercyFlush (DANGER: You are being conditioned to view your freedom as selfish)
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To: nickcarraway

We have human rights abuses being perpetrated in a country that borders us. Our government will do the same or worse when faced with the same situation. The Chinese Muslims are moving down the list of priorities in a hurry.


13 posted on 02/18/2022 2:48:32 PM PST by cdcdawg (Everyone who disagrees with me is a Qtard blogger!!!!)
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To: nickcarraway
Shouldn't that be “scurrilous lies”?
14 posted on 02/18/2022 3:15:53 PM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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To: nickcarraway

I might brlieve this guy because Muslims are encouraged to lie to the rest of the world.


15 posted on 02/18/2022 3:21:49 PM PST by Ikeon (I never cared about what color you were, until you started blaming me for your personal problems)
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“forced labor”

From each according to their ability is a key part of Marxism.

Able adults under retirement age are required to work under the constitution of the People’s Republic of China.


16 posted on 02/18/2022 3:40:34 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MercyFlush

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Uyghur_unrest


17 posted on 02/18/2022 3:45:08 PM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: nickcarraway

That’s good enough for me...


18 posted on 02/18/2022 3:47:32 PM PST by EEGator
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Lies? Like the people Psaki and Biden claimed wanted to stay in lovely Afghanistan even though they appeared to be panicking and fighting for a chance to escape clinging under an airplane wheel well rather than stay.

Now the Chinese concentration camp victims are possibly on a sort of vacation there and would tell you they like it. Just cut through some barbed wire and electrified chain link fencing and ask them. That includes dissident Christians as well as the Muslims, by the way.


19 posted on 02/18/2022 3:51:52 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Wow, I feel so much better knowing this.


20 posted on 02/18/2022 3:56:47 PM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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