As the opening ceremony for the Winter Olympics was taking place in Beijing on Feb. 4, a coalition of human rights groups held their version of a ceremony outside the Chinese embassy in Ottawa on the same day, calling the international sporting event the “Genocide Games.” The half-hour ceremony, co-organized by advocacy groups such as StopUyghurGenocide Canada, the Canada Tibet Committee, the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project, and the Federation for a Democratic China, called attention to the human rights’ violations of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). “The Olympics in Beijing should not be happening, but they are happening,” said event spokesperson Phil Kretzmar, co-founder of StopUyghurGenocide Canada, in an interview with The Epoch Times on Feb. 4. “We felt that rather than do anything to celebrate or recognize the Olympics, we needed to stand in solidarity with and in support of those that have been persecuted by the Chinese government …