For Immediate Release
July 8, 2021
CONTACTS:
Women’s Rights
Without Frontiers, reggielittlejohn@gmail.com, Reggie
Littlejohn, 310.592.5722
Hamilton Strategies, Media@HamiltonStrategies.com,
Marjorie Pratt, 610.584.1096, ext. 107, or Deborah Hamilton, ext. 102
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@savethepersecutedchristians.org
·
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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To interview Reggie Littlejohn,
contact reggielittlejohn@gmail.com, 310.592.5722.
To interview representatives of the Committee
on the Present Danger: China, contact Media@HamiltonStrategies.com, Marjorie Pratt, 610.584.1096, ext. 107, or Deborah Hamilton,
ext. 102.
