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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUyghur athlete delivers Olympic flame in opening ceremony after global criticism of China
One of the final torchbearers was a member of the Uyghur ethnic minority, whose treatment by the Chinese government is at the center of a U.S.-led diplomatic boycott of the Games.
China kicked off the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday with a pared-back but visually stunning opening ceremony and a defiant message to the world leaders boycotting it.
After a brisk, snowflake-themed show that emphasized youth and ordinary people, the Games were declared officially open by Chinese President Xi Jinping, prompting a burst of fireworks over the Birds Nest National Stadium in central Beijing.
The final step was to deliver the ceremonial flame, a moment that often carries symbolic weight based in part on who is selected for the task.
Chinese officials chose two athletes, one of whom was Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur cross-country skiier from the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-beijing-china-rcna14511
China kicked off the 2022 Winter Olympics on Friday with a pared-back but visually stunning opening ceremony and a defiant message to the world leaders boycotting it.
After a brisk, snowflake-themed show that emphasized youth and ordinary people, the Games were declared officially open by Chinese President Xi Jinping, prompting a burst of fireworks over the Birds Nest National Stadium in central Beijing.
The final step was to deliver the ceremonial flame, a moment that often carries symbolic weight based in part on who is selected for the task.
Chinese officials chose two athletes, one of whom was Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur cross-country skiier from the western Chinese region of Xinjiang.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/winter-olympics-opening-ceremony-beijing-china-rcna14511
Good lawd, that is something.
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Uyghur athlete delivers Olympic flame in opening ceremony after global criticism of China (Original Post)
demmiblue
Feb 2022
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dalton99a
(81,509 posts)1. Xi: "There is my Uyghur Muslim!"
"There are no concentration camps in China"
Eaxctly this.
Not watching the Olympics this year.
sarisataka
(18,655 posts)3. Well if the 1936 Olympic flame
Was delivered by a Jewish athlete we would have known there was no oppression in Germany
cbabe
(3,541 posts)4. India diplomats boycott opening ceremonies due to
Chinese military officer from deadly India/China Himalayan conflict as torch bearer.