-Reuters
LAUSANNE, Dec 11- Two Tibetan students chained themselves to the Olympic rings outside the Swiss headquarters of the International Olympic Committee on Saturday to call for an international boycott of next year’s winter games.
The pair were part of the latest protest against the 2022 Olympic Games over Beijing’s abuse of human rights and its treatment of minorities.
The United States will not send government officials to the 2022 Winter Olympics due to China’s human rights “atrocities,” it said earlier this month.
Members of the Tibetan Youth Association in Europe (TYAE) and Students for a Free Tibet held a sit-in at the IOC building in Lausanne as officials gathered for a meeting.
The activists demanded countries withdraw from the event they have called the “Genocide Games”, which they say are being used to burnish China’s reputation. Click here to read more.