{"id":1261092,"date":"2022-02-01T10:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1261092"},"modified":"2022-02-01T10:53:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T15:53:51","slug":"exclusive-uyghur-leader-boycott-olympics-show-elites-you-care-about-genocide-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-uyghur-leader-boycott-olympics-show-elites-you-care-about-genocide-2\/","title":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE \u2013 Uyghur Leader: Boycott Olympics, Show Elites You Care About Genocide"},"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\">24<\/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-uyghur-leader-boycott-olympics-show-elites-you-care-about-genocide-2%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=1261092&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--><p class=\"subheading\">The Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile Salih Hudayar urged Americans to make the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics the least watched in history during an interview with Breitbart News on Monday as a sign that regular people care and are appalled by genocide.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/east-turkistan.net\/\">East Turkistan Government in Exile<\/a> represents the people of that region, which the Chinese Communist Party currently occupies and refers to as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The people of East Turkistan \u2013 where the majority of China\u2019s Uyghur ethnic minority resides, as well as members of other Central Asian ethnic groups distinct from the Han majority that governs Beijing \u2013 have faced decades of gruesome human rights abuses under the Communist Party, from reports of using political prisoners to <a href=\"https:\/\/chinatribunal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/A15_Submission_ID459T_EnverTohti_PD.pdf\">harvest<\/a> live organs to the systemic elimination of Islam, Uyghur language, and historic sites like mosques and cemeteries throughout East Turkistan.<\/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>The Uyghur community has been among the most vocal calling for the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to relocate the 2022 Beijing Olympics on the grounds that multiple governments, including the United States, have deemed China guilty of an ongoing genocide. Hudayar, speaking to Breitbart News, lamented that the IOC had \u201cignored\u201d his organization\u2019s requests to reconsider honoring China with hosting duties, foreign governments had disregarded calls for a true boycott of the Games, and athletes are proceeding with competing in the Olympics with no significant recognition of the crimes their presence is endorsing.<\/p>\n<p>Having exhausted all those options, the East Turkistan Government in Exile is now appealing directly to sports fans, urging them to boycott the Games to send a message that allowing a genocidal tyranny to receive one of the highest honors in athletics is unacceptable.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18804818\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-6.25.27-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18804818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Screen-Shot-2021-11-18-at-6.25.27-AM.png\" alt=\"Salih Hudayar, the prime minister of the East Turkistan government in exile, urges Joe Biden to take action to defend Uyghur people in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2021.\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Salih Hudayar, the Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, urges Joe Biden to take action to defend Uyghur people in Washington, DC, on November 12, 2021. (Breitbart News\/Screengrab)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A successful viewer boycott, Hudayar told Breitbart News, will show \u201cthat people, average people, are concerned and they care about the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs, unlike what Chamath Palihapitiya and others, the elites like him, state, that \u2018we don\u2019t care\u2019 or \u2018nobody cares.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Palihapitiya, a billionaire part-owner of the Golden State Warriors, dismissively <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/01\/17\/video-nba-co-owner-says-nobody-cares-about-chinas-uyghur-genocide\/\">said<\/a> in a podcast interview in January that \u201cnobody cares\u201d about the Uyghur genocide and that for him, personally, the use of over 1,200 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2018\/12\/01\/reuters-reveals-up-to-1200-muslim-gulags-built-in-china\/\">concentration camps<\/a> to erase Uyghur identity in East Turkistan was \u201cbelow my line\u201d of caring. In contrast,&nbsp;Palihapitiya listed \u201cclimate change\u201d and \u201chealthcare infrastructure\u201d as issues worthy of more attention.<\/p>\n<p>A boycott, Hudayar contended, that makes the Beijing Olympics the least watched in history will \u201cshow that people care and this will ultimately pressure governments to hopefully engage in stronger actions, more meaningful actions \u2013 tangible things that will actually benefit the people on the ground in East Turkistan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hudayar noted that, the last time China hosted an Olympics ceremony, in 2008, the event preceded the ongoing genocide.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>We were deeply discouraged to see that China was even awarded the opportunity to host these Olympics despite the fact that it is carrying out an ongoing genocide,\u201d Hudayar noted. \u201cThe last time China hosted the Summer Olympics, in 2008, it promised that it would make improvements in human rights and so forth \u2013 and none of those promises have been met. In fact, things have gotten much worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mihrigul Tursun, a Uyghur Muslim woman who became an activist after multiple stays at a Chinese concentration camp, told Breitbart News the harrowing details of her torture in these facilities before escaping to the United States. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7HeaSmnSiw\">https:\/\/t.co\/7HeaSmnSiw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1460603368657850372?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe encouraged governments to engage in a full boycott. Not just a diplomatic boycott \u2013 but a full boycott to where they don\u2019t send anyone, including athletes. I know athletes have been training for this for years, but we are in a time of history that if we attend the Olympics, if any athletes attend the Olympics, they have ultimately chosen a side,\u201d Hudayar said. \u201cWe tried reaching out to athletes across the world, especially even the U.S. Olympic team, and they ignored us. Governments, unfortunately, some governments implemented a small, weak diplomatic boycott while many governments completely ignored the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden\u2019s administration announced the first major \u201cdiplomatic boycott\u201d of the Olympics in December. A diplomatic boycott is not a boycott, as diplomats do not compete in Olympics sports. Even this half-measure, however, dissipated less than a month later when the State Department admitted it had applied for multiple visas to send diplomats to the Games.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The only country in the world that has announced a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at press time is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/01\/07\/north-korea-becomes-first-country-to-boycott-genocide-olympics-to-protest-america\/\">North Korea<\/a>, whose officials claimed not attending the Games in China was somehow a protest of the United States. The IOC banned North Korea from the Olympics last year, anyway, rendering the attempted protest moot.<\/p>\n<p>Hudayar drew parallels between the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and the 1936 Games held in Berlin on the eve of the Holocaust.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nazis used the Olympics as propaganda to show off [their] \u2018national prestige\u2019 and then, shortly afterwards, the Nazis started to implement the Holocaust,\u201d Hudayar noted, citing Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor <a href=\"https:\/\/eliewieselfoundation.org\/elie-wiesel\/nobelprizespeech\/\">Elie Wiesel<\/a>: \u201cWe must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chamath Palihapitiya, the NBA team co-owner who told a podcast Saturday that \u201cnobody cares\u201d about the genocide of China\u2019s Uyghur Muslim population, is a Democratic Party mega-donor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vl8301yRKN\">https:\/\/t.co\/vl8301yRKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews\/status\/1483288762696282114?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 18, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chinese Communist Party has recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/01\/28\/china-xinjiang-un-rights-bachelet\/\">declared<\/a> that it would allow U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet to visit East Turkistan, but only after the Olympics and under the surveillance of Beijing. Hudayar noted that the Nazi Germany government did something similar with the International Red Cross.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Chinese government has invited, or is going to allow, the U.N. human rights chief Michelle Bachelet to visit East Turkistan on the basis that it\u2019s not an investigation. Only after the Olympics, though \u2013 that\u2019ll only happen after the Olympics,\u201d Hudayar noted. \u201cIf there\u2019s not going to be an investigation \u2013 and when I say investigation I mean an unrestricted, uncensored investigation on the ground \u2013 if she doesn\u2019t carry that out, then it\u2019s going to be like the International Red Cross visiting&nbsp;Theresienstadt. How the Nazis took down all the wires and everything and made it look like it was some type of vocational training facility \u2026 this was in 1944.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum <a href=\"https:\/\/encyclopedia.ushmm.org\/content\/en\/article\/theresienstadt-red-cross-visit\">explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Succumbing to pressure following the deportation of Danish Jews to Theresienstadt, the Germans permitted representatives from the Danish Red Cross and the International Red Cross to visit in June 1944. It was all an elaborate hoax. The Germans intensified deportations from the ghetto shortly before the visit, and the ghetto itself was \u201cbeautified.\u201d Gardens were planted, houses painted, and barracks renovated. The Nazis staged social and cultural events for the visiting dignitaries. Once the visit was over, the Germans resumed deportations from Theresienstadt, which did not end until October 1944.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hudayar noted that the opening of the Beijing Olympics will come one day before the 25th anniversary of one of the bloodiest recent <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/02\/the-ghulja-massacre-of-1997-and-the-face-of-uyghur-genocide-today\/\">episodes<\/a> in East Turkistan, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2021\/02\/the-ghulja-massacre-of-1997-and-the-face-of-uyghur-genocide-today\/\">massacre<\/a> of peaceful protesters in northwest Ghulja in 1997.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19706074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1266323522.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19706074\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1266323522-1024x683-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 14: Supporters and members of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement rally outside the White House to urge the United States to end trade deals with China and take action to stop the oppression of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples August 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. The ETNAM and East Turkistan Government in Exile (ETGE) groups submitted evidence to the international criminal court, calling for an investigation into senior Chinese officials, including Xi Jinping, for genocide and crimes against humanity. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Supporters and members of the East Turkistan National Awakening Movement rally outside the White House to urge the U.S. to end trade deals with China and take action to stop the oppression of the Uyghur and other Turkic peoples August 14, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>While verifying the true death toll in a communist country is impossible, scholars <a href=\"https:\/\/campaignforuyghurs.org\/remembering-the-ghulja-massacre-the-path-to-genocide-accelerated-in-1997\/\">estimate<\/a> that thousands took the streets for peaceful protest against communist, about 1,600 were arrested, and hundreds killed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a cycle that keeps happening in East Turkistan,\u201d Hudayar explained. \u201cEvery time that our people try to peacefully protest, we keep getting gunned down by the Chinese government. And so with this happening at the same time right after the opening of the Olympics, we hope that we can highlight this event and commemorate it by, again, boycotting the Olympics, by urging governments to undertake stronger actions.\u201d<\/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=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw23AQC9DygBP6Uvx2AKooEo\">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=1643765950098000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1V8tY067ZdeWpATK5ZWNXI\">Twitter.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile Salih Hudayar urged Americans to make the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics the least watched in history during an interview with &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1261092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1261092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1261092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1261092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1261092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1261092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}