Paul Goble
Apalachicola, February 15 – Representatives of the Circassian diaspora staged a demonstration at the site of the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games on Saturday as part of their ongoing campaign to have the International Olympic Committee move the 2014 Games from Sochi, the site of a Russian genocide of the Circassians in the nineteenth century.
The message of the Circassians both in the Canadian City and on their new website --
nosochi2014.com/ -- which were organized by the Circassian Cultural Institute in the United States, is that "if you let the 2014 games go on as planned in Russia, you’ll be skiing on the graves of our oppressed ancestors” (www.radioadiga.com/ClosedIndex/artikkk.php?ind=3339).
Ed Youghar, one of the organizers and participants, said in advance of the Vancouver protest that the Circassians planned to use the event talk "about the ...
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