For Immediate Release
July 8, 2021
CONTACTS:
Women’s Rights
Without Frontiers, reggielittlejohn@
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STOP ‘GENOCIDE GAMES’ RALLY
ON NATIONAL MALL
Event Will Call for 2022 Olympics to be Moved, Boycotted
WASHINGTON, D.C.—On July 13th, human rights activists, freedom-fighters, legislators, representatives of China’s Captive Nations and national security practitioners will hold a rally to “Stop the 2022 Genocide Games in Beijing” D.C. rally. The effort to prevent the Chinese Communist Party from being rewarded for its genocide of minorities of Uyghur and other ethnicities in western China and myriad crimes against humanity against the people of China more generally is being sponsored by the Genocide Games Coalition led by Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, the Committee on the Present Danger: China, Save the Persecuted Christians, and other national NGOs.
Reggie Littlejohn, president of Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, co-leader of the Genocide Games Coalition and co-host of the Rally, stated: “It is an affront to human rights for the Olympics to be held in Beijing when the Chinese Communist Party is among the worst human rights abusers in the history of the world. They are committing Genocide against the Uyghurs and multifarious other atrocities against Tibetans and citizens of Hong Kong. They unleashed the coronavirus on the world and deadly fentanyl on our own shores. They have stolen countless billions of dollars in intellectual property. Far from receiving the honor of hosting the Olympics, they should be declared a Transnational Criminal Organization.”
Prominent among the participants in the Stop the Genocide Games Rally will be members of the CCP’s Captive Nations—Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Tibetans, Southern Mongolians, Falun Gong, Chinese Christians, and Hong Kongers—who will bear witness to and speak about the atrocities committed by the Chinese Communist Party, and engage in cultural expression on the part of their respective communities now at risk of utter destruction thanks to decades of brutal Communist oppression and genocide.
The Genocide Games Coalition calls for the Olympics to be moved or boycotted. At GenocideGames.org, you will find a “Leaders & Influencers Letter” signed by 110 dissidents, China experts, civil society leaders, and current and former government officials including Representative Chris Smith, a well-known human rights champion in Congress and honorary co-chair of the International Religious Freedom Summit.
An ongoing petition on the site invites members of the public to join the growing chorus of concerned people in the United States and globally who agree that Communist China should not have the honor of hosting the prestigious international Olympic Games while they are committing genocide against ethnic and religious minorities; hindering investigations into the origins of the Covid-19 virus and its spread to the world at large; violating the international treaty governing the autonomy of Hong Kong; and committing a host of other transnational crimes.
The rally is an advocacy side event to the first annual International Religious Freedom Summit that will be held July 13-15 at the Omni Shoreham. The Summit will be hosted by the IRF Secretariat, former Ambassador for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback and Katrina Lantos Swett, former chair of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and daughter of the late Congressman Tom Lantos.
WHERE & WHEN:
Noon-3 p.m. ET, Tuesday, July 13 on the far east end of the National
Mall at 3rd St. SW between Madison Dr NW and Jefferson Dr SW,
Washington, D.C.
EVENT HOSTS:
The Genocide Games Coalition: Women’s Rights Without Frontiers; the Committee on the Present Danger: China; Save the Persecuted Christians; the Captive Nations Coalition; and many others
FOR QUESTIONS, CONTACT THE COALITION COORDINATORS:
· Reggie Littlejohn, president, Women’s Rights Without Frontiers, reggielittlejohn@gmail.com
·
Dede Laugesen, executive secretary, Committee
on the Present Danger: China (CPDC) and executive director of Save the
Persecuted Christians, dede@
· Se Hoon Kim, director, Captive Nations Coalition of the CPDC, thewtl404@gmail.com
VIDEO RESOURCES:
Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and the Congressional-Executive Commission on China for a joint hearing, China, Genocide and the Olympics. And, Stolen & Silenced: The CCP’s Genocide of the Uyghurs.
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contact reggielittlejohn@
To interview representatives of the Committee
on the Present Danger: China, contact Media@
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