{"id":1278977,"date":"2022-02-07T15:39:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1278977"},"modified":"2022-02-07T15:39:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:39:46","slug":"report-chinas-uyghur-torchbearer-vanishes-after-poor-showing-at-ski-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-chinas-uyghur-torchbearer-vanishes-after-poor-showing-at-ski-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: China&#039;s Uyghur Torchbearer Vanishes After Poor Showing at Ski Event"},"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\">22<\/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%2Freport-chinas-uyghur-torchbearer-vanishes-after-poor-showing-at-ski-event%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=1278977&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&nbsp;<em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> revealed on Sunday that&nbsp;Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur athlete who China made an Olympic torchbearer for the Opening Ceremonies, violated Olympic rules and failed to meet journalists after a poor performance on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Upon&nbsp;Yilamujiang\u2019s 43rd place finish in the&nbsp;cross-country ski event, she did not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/amp\/articles\/a-uyghur-skier-became-the-face-of-chinas-winter-olympics-the-next-day-she-vanished-from-the-spotlight-11644157693\">pass<\/a> through the mandatory media zone for interviews, a violation of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rules, according to the<em>&nbsp;Journal<\/em>. Reporters waited indefinitely for her, as no officials notified them that she would not be coming. The&nbsp;newspaper noted that her whereabouts remain unknown to foreign reporters at the time of the article\u2019s publication.<\/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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/07153929\/dinigeer-yilamujiang-of-team-china-competes-during-the-womens-cross-picture-id1368727223\" alt=\"Dinigeer Yilamujiang of Team China competes during the Women&#039;s Cross Country 7.5km + 7.5km Skiathlon on Day 1 of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic...\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The IOC declined to comment to the <em>Journal<\/em> on&nbsp;Yilamujiang\u2019s absence. Likewise, China\u2019s National Olympic Committee did not respond to the publication\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>After the event,&nbsp;Yilamujiang\u2019s name was reportedly barely mentioned by Chinese state media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough Ms. Yilamujiang wasn\u2019t available to answer journalists\u2019 questions after Saturday\u2019s race, China\u2019s state-run broadcaster did have an exclusive interview, in which she expressed incredulity at having been entrusted with the role of torchbearer,\u201d the <em>Journal<\/em> reported.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/07153941\/torch-bearers-dinigeer-yilamujiang-and-jiawen-zhao-of-team-china-hold-picture-id1368596581\" alt=\"Torch bearers Dinigeer Yilamujiang and Jiawen Zhao of Team China hold the Olympic flame during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter...\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>BEIJING, CHINA \u2013 FEBRUARY 04: Torchbearers Dinigeer Yilamujiang and Jiawen Zhao of Team China hold the Olympic flame during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at the Beijing National Stadium on February 04, 2022, in Beijing, China. (Photo by Lintao Zhang\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince the country gave me such an important mission, I had to fulfill it,\u201d Yilamujiang said in a video airing on state media that&nbsp;reportedly appeared to be taped before the cross-country competition ended in defeat for her.<\/p>\n<p>Yilamujiang, 20, is Uyghur, an ethnicity of Turkic descent native to the occupied region of East Turkistan, which China calls Xinjiang. China is currently engaging in genocide of the Uyghur population and other ethnicities in the region, including Kazakh and Kyrgyz East Turkistanis.<\/p>\n<p>Yilamujiang\u2019s appearance at the Opening Ceremonies appeared to be an attempt by Beijing to give the appearance of tolerance towards Uyghur people in the face of over a year\u2019s worth of protests calling for governments, athletes, broadcasters, and viewers to boycott the Olympics in solidarity with the victims of genocide. But, ultimately, no government abstained from sending athletes, and major networks are airing the Games with little commentary on the fact that they are happening in a totalitarian state.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese Olympic organizers in a Saturday press briefing would not answer questions about why&nbsp;Yilamujiang was selected for the distinguished honor of torchbearer, reportedly preferring to deflect to the visional appeal and celebration of the opening ceremony.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Chinese Olympic organizers later followed up with the <em>Journal<\/em> and described the torchbearer\u2019s selection criteria as \u201cstringent\u201d and worthy of \u201coutstanding achievements.\u201d However, the IOC did not answer the <em>Journal\u2019s<\/em> questions about&nbsp;Yilamujiang\u2019s selection.<\/p>\n<div>Breitbart News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2021\/12\/09\/tribunal-olympics-host-china-beyond-a-reasonable-doubt-guilty-of-genocide\/\">reported<\/a> on Communist China\u2019s human rights abuses:<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Uyghur Tribunal, an independent effort by human rights experts and international legal scholars to assess the genocide of Uyghur people in the occupied region of East Turkistan, found in a judgment issued Thursday that the occupying force, China, is guilty of genocide beyond a reasonable doubt.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<blockquote>\n<p>China considers East Turkistan a province known formally as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). For much of the past decade, communist dictator Xi Jinping has implemented policies intended to eradicate Islam, the local religion, and Uyghur language and culture. Evidence suggests that, starting at a major scale in 2017, Chinese officials began trapping Uyghurs and members of other Muslim-majority ethnic groups in concentration camps, where survivors say they faced torture, systematic rape, indoctrination, slavery, and potential execution.<\/p>\n<p>Taking into consideration this evidence, the Uyghur Tribunal also found that China\u2019s Communist Party was guilty of torture and crimes against humanity \u201cbeyond a reasonable doubt,\u201d the highest legal standard of proof.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><em>Follow Wendell Huseb\u00f8 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WendellHusebo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/gettr.com\/user\/wendellhusebo\">Gettr<\/a>&nbsp;@WendellHuseb\u00f8<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Wall Street Journal revealed on Sunday that\u00a0Dinigeer Yilamujiang, a Uyghur athlete who China made an Olympic torchbearer for the Opening Ceremonies, violated Olympic rules and failed to meet journalists after &#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-1278977","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\/1278977","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=1278977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278977\/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=1278977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}