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Stephanie Nebehay

Olympics-Tibetans march on IOC headquarters to protest Beijing Games

Members of Tibetan communities living in Europe gather to protest in front of the headquarters of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in Lausanne, Switzerland February 3, 2022. REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann

Several hundred Tibetan and Uyghur activists marched on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Thursday, a day before Beijing 2022 opens, accusing the Swiss-based organisation of complicity in "atrocities" committed against ethnic minorities in China.

Hours earlier, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that the Beijing Olympics would be streamlined, safe and splendid, even as IOC President Thomas Bach decried boycott ghosts "rearing their ugly heads again" over human rights concerns.

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