{"id":1007686,"date":"2021-11-13T13:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1007686"},"modified":"2021-11-13T13:59:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-13T18:59:20","slug":"exclusive-chinese-concentration-camp-survivor-on-nba-they-dont-want-to-think-about-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-chinese-concentration-camp-survivor-on-nba-they-dont-want-to-think-about-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2013 Chinese Concentration Camp Survivor on NBA: &#039;They Don&#039;t Want to Think About Humanity&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-chinese-concentration-camp-survivor-on-nba-they-dont-want-to-think-about-humanity%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1007686&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-13-at-10.55.16-AM-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Mihrigul Tursun, a survivor of China\u2019s concentration camp system, urged the National Basketball Association (NBA) in remarks to Breitbart News on Friday to condemn China\u2019s human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Tursun also warned star player LeBron James, one of China\u2019s biggest business partners in the league, to distance himself from the regime \u201cbecause money cannot do everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tursun was participating in a march Friday organized by the&nbsp;East Turkistan Government in Exile in Washington, DC, the purpose of which was to demand that the administration of President Joe Biden act to protect the Uyghur people from the ongoing genocide they are enduring at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party. Tursun is an ethnic Uyghur Muslim from East Turkistan, an occupied western region China refers to as \u201cXinjiang,\u201d and has testified to being forced into the Chinese concentration camp system three times between 2015 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Tursun\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/11\/27\/uighur-woman-china-concentration-camp\/\">testimonies<\/a> have provided some of the most detailed information the outside world has on the atrocities Chinese agents commit against Uyghurs and other ethnic minority Muslims in the country. She has said Chinese police arrested her after, with infant triplets, she returned home to her parents following studying abroad in Egypt. Among the many atrocities she endured, she has said, is the killing of one of her triplets and extreme personal torture to herself, including electrocution, beatings, drugging, and sleep deprivation.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has responded to Tursun\u2019s claims by mocking them, declaring in state media that Chinese people \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/12\/04\/state-media-chinese-people-laughed-uighur-womans-torture-re-education-camp\/\">laughed<\/a>\u201d at her ordeal and scurrilously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2019\/12\/03\/china-muslim-concentration-camp-survivor-arrested-inciting-hatred-had-syphilis\/\">accusing<\/a> her of carrying sexually transmitted diseases.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tursun is one of the estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/06\/feds-china-muslim-crackdown-number-detainees-may-have-tripled-less-than-1-year\/\">three million<\/a> people the regime of communist dictator Xi Jinping has locked in concentration camps.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2018\/09\/13\/china-muslim-torture-camps-are-necessary-education-centers\/\">claims<\/a> the concentration camps are \u201cvocational training centers\u201d for uneducated Uyghurs.<\/p>\n<p>The NBA\u2019s business ties with China are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/now\/nba-needs-china-revenue-growth-leverage-170102327.html\">estimated<\/a> to be worth billions of dollars; individual NBA players separately make millions through sponsorship deals with Chinese companies. The NBA\u2019s relationship with China is currently in the news because one player, Boston Celtics star Enes Kanter, launched a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2021\/11\/01\/nbas-enes-kanter-joins-d-c-protest-urging-congress-to-fight-chinas-genocide\/\">campaign<\/a> last month to hold China accountable for human rights abuses, referring to Xi as a \u201cbrutal dictator\u201d and specifically condemning the Uyghur genocide.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, James \u2013 who has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2019\/10\/15\/exposed-lebron-james-finacial-interests-in-communist-china-run-deep\/\">cultivated<\/a> significant financial interests in China \u2013 has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2019\/10\/14\/lebron-caves-to-china-blasts-uneducated-rockets-gm-free-speech\/\">criticized<\/a>&nbsp;others for condemning China\u2019s human rights atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI also don\u2019t think every issue should be everybody\u2019s problem as well,\u201d James said in 2019 when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2019\/10\/16\/lebron-james-on-nba-china-not-every-issue-be-everyones-problem\/\">asked<\/a> about human rights abuses in China.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tursun lamented to Breitbart News that many major brands, such as the NBA and Nike, \u201cwill start keeping silent because they don\u2019t want to lose this good business, good relationship. They don\u2019t want to think about humanity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t want to think about what happened [to] a lot of people, like genocide. They do not think about this \u2013 they just think about their own business,\u201d Tursun said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Tursun noted that Kanter\u2019s advocacy has been noticed and celebrated in the Uyghur community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEnes Kanter, he talks about Uyghur [issues]. We are very appreciative. We hope, like this person, a lot of people get behind [the] Uyghur [cause and] help us stop genocide,\u201d Tursun said.<\/p>\n<p>Tursun urged those who have remained silent to consider her story.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI am 30 years old now. I am with my twins here. My husband, my father, my sister, my brother, all my family members \u2013 I don\u2019t have contact. I don\u2019t know where they are, whether they are alive or dead,\u201d she said. \u201cI don\u2019t have any information about them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy two kids are disabled. The Chinese government did that to them,\u201d she continued. \u201cI don\u2019t know if, [for] the rest of my life, I can have babies or not. \u2026 I am taking mental medicine for day and night [sic] because [of] panic attack[s], because [of] worry from this torture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked about James\u2019s stance of not feeling compelled to advocate against China, Tursun asked the NBA player to reconsider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you are me and if you have my situation for your family \u2026 if you have my situation in your country, what would you do? You need to tell the world, \u2018Help me help my family,&#8217;\u201d Tursun said. \u201cBut now, it\u2019s not you. It\u2019s come to me. It\u2019s come to my people. I am doing this. You are human \u2013 do you want to think about your own money, your own business, or you want to think about humanity?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask him [James] to listen, to wake up because money cannot do everything,\u201d Tursun said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Frances Martel on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/francesimartel\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636840993781000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1w0J-jl0k8bnjaKaWSqBuX\">Facebook<\/a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/twitter.com\/francesmartel&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1636840993781000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0I-ic1zgdGzuy-KuL8Dhyu\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mihrigul Tursun, a survivor of China\u2019s concentration camp system, urged the National Basketball Association (NBA) in remarks to Breitbart News on Friday to condemn China\u2019s human rights abuses. 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