More than 2 million people have been moved from their homes over the past 20 years, many of them forcibly, to clear space for the Olympic Games, a human rights group reported today.  Three quarters of the displaced people are in China, where the authorities are clearing large swaths of residential districts ahead of next year's Olympics, according to a new report by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)...

The Chinese foreign ministry rejected the statistics as "groundless". It said that just over 6,000 households had been demolished and that the homeowners had been compensated and resettled. However, the COHRE report insists that its statistics are conservative, and do not include rural migrants living in the overcrowded central districts of Beijing who the group says will be forced out…

More than 2 million people have been moved from their homes over the past 20 years, many of them forcibly, to clear space for the Olympic Games, a human rights group reported today.

Three quarters of the displaced people are in China, where the authorities are clearing large swaths of residential districts ahead of next year's Olympics, according to a new report by the Geneva-based Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)…

The Chinese foreign ministry rejected the statistics as "groundless". It said that just over 6,000 households had been demolished and that the homeowners had been compensated and resettled. However, the COHRE report insists that its statistics are conservative, and do not include rural migrants living in the overcrowded central districts of Beijing who the group says will be forced out…