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Once again, the Olympics are being used to obscure human rights violations. Will the IOC finally take a stand?

Here, now, comes another chance for the International Olympic Committee to do the right thing.

No, not canceling that 2020(ish) Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Although it should probably think very hard about that too.

The 2022 Winter Games in Beijing are even more concerning, given China’s appalling human rights record against dissenters and religious minorities. Last week, yet another well-sourced article was published about the abuses against the Muslim Uighurs in a complex of prisons and re-education camps that have, by some estimates, swallowed up a million people. This time, the accusation is of systemic rape and forced sterilization.