The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics is an opportunity for the Chinese communist regime to legitimize the ongoing genocide and atrocities it inflicts on Tibetans, Uyghurs, Hong Kongers, and other minorities in China, human rights advocates said, as they called for a full international boycott of the Games. In a Jan. 4 panel discussion hosted by the Canada Tibet Committee, rights advocates said that a diplomatic boycott—which involves a country not sending diplomats or government officials to participate, while allowing its athletes to compete in the Games—is not a strong enough response to the atrocities committed by the Chinese regime. “To be cheering on our athletes while they’re in Beijing, when just outside the stadium there is a genocide being committed against the Uyghurs and the Tibetans is the same as applauding for the Chinese government itself,” Chemi Lhamo, an outspoken Tibetan-Canadian activist, told the panelists. “If genocide isn’t our red line, …