{"id":1279722,"date":"2022-02-07T19:23:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1279722"},"modified":"2022-02-07T19:23:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T00:23:20","slug":"uyghur-concentration-camp-survivor-nbc-supports-genocide-by-airing-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uyghur-concentration-camp-survivor-nbc-supports-genocide-by-airing-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Uyghur Concentration Camp Survivor: NBC &#039;Supports Genocide&#039; by Airing Olympics"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fuyghur-concentration-camp-survivor-nbc-supports-genocide-by-airing-olympics%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=1279722&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\">Tursunay Ziawudun, a survivor of China\u2019s brutal concentration camp system for Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic groups, accused NBC and Comcast of supporting genocide by airing the 2022 Beijing Olympics in an interview with Breitbart News on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Ziawudun joined a large group of mostly Uyghur protesters in front of the White House on Saturday to observe the anniversary of the 1997 Ghulja massacre \u2013 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/05\/watch-live-uyghur-groups-protest-genocide-games-at-white-house\/\">resulted<\/a> in thousands of arrests and an estimated hundred dead after Uyghurs organized peaceful protests against the communist regime in Beijing in the northwestern city that year \u2013 and to protest the Beijing Olympics. Opponents of the Games argue that a country openly engaging in genocide should not receive the honor of hosting such a prestigious event and that focusing on sports competition in China distracts from the long list of atrocities that government is committing.<\/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 government of the United States, under both Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden, has officially declared the extermination of Uyghurs and other ethnic minority people in East Turkistan a genocide \u2013 along with multiple other nations and human rights investigators.<\/p>\n<p>NBC has exclusive broadcasting rights for the Olympics in the United States and began airing Olympics coverage Friday. The Beijing 2022 Opening Ceremonies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/02\/05\/nolte-record-low-ratings-for-nbcs-opening-coverage-of-genocide-games\/\">attracted<\/a> fewer viewers than any other such ceremony in history \u2013 a 55-percent drop from viewers of the Opening Ceremonies for the 2018 Pyeongchang, South Korea, Winter Olympics. A Morning Consult poll published last week <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/04\/poll-40-of-american-adults-refuse-watch-genocide-games-viewership-could-lowest-record\/\">found<\/a>&nbsp;about 40 percent of respondents not watching the Beijing Olympics are not doing so specifically because they are uncomfortable with the host country\u2019s human rights crimes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19791674\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358311993.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19791674 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358311993-1024x679-1.jpg\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 10: Protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside of the NBC Sports office on December 10, 2021 in San Francisco, California. Dozens of Tibetan and human rights activists staged a protest outside of the NBC Sports office to demand that the network not broadcast the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing, China due to the country&#039;s human rights abuses. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"679\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Activists protest against China\u2019s hosting of the Olympics. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. government declared genocide clearly \u2013 yet, knowing that, NBC and Comcast and others are broadcasting these Genocide Games,\u201d Ziawudun&nbsp;told Breitbart News. \u201cI am very hurt, I am very sad, very upset about this truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19791690\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358311901.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19791690 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1358311901-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt=\"SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 10: Protesters hold signs during a demonstration outside of the NBC Sports office on December 10, 2021 in San Francisco, California. Dozens of Tibetan and human rights activists staged a protest outside of the NBC Sports office to demand that the network not broadcast the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Beijing, China due to the country&#039;s human rights abuses. (Photo by Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Activists protest against China\u2019s hosting of the Olympics. (Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ziawudun noted that, in addition to Saturday\u2019s protest in Washington, she joined Tibetans and others in New York to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/asia\/2022\/02\/04\/protesters-surround-nbc-asking-ban-genocide-olympics\/\">protest<\/a> the Olympics outside of NBC Studios last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA couple of people came up actually and said, \u2018We can\u2019t do anything about it, we do support you guys but this is our work, we can\u2019t do anything about it.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe they can. They could do something, but they didn\u2019t. They prefer to probably get money or there is something going on. What I think is that the Chinese government is committing genocide and crimes against humanity,\u201d she explained. \u201cAnd broadcasting these Olympics is supporting the Chinese government. Broadcasting these Olympics is supporting that genocide, being complicit in that genocide.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ziawudun told Breitbart News that she is among the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2019\/05\/06\/feds-china-muslim-crackdown-number-detainees-may-have-tripled-less-than-1-year\/\">3 million<\/a> people who have been imprisoned in a Chinese concentration camp since 2017. Survivors of the camps have testified to extreme torture including electroshock, sleep deprivation, beatings, slavery, and gang rape. Chinese officials also force prisoners to learn Mandarin, which is not a native language in East Turkistan, and worship dictator Xi Jinping.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am a camp survivor, I have witnessed the genocide itself, how the Chinese government oppresses our people,\u201d Ziawudun&nbsp;said. \u201cFor the country that commits genocide and crimes against humanity to still be able to hold the Olympics \u2013 I\u2019m against that and I am here to tell the world to boycott.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ziawudun also had a message for Olympians born in America who have chosen to represent the Chinese Communist Party at the Beijing Games, including skater <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/06\/us-born-skater-defected-team-china-blasted-after-last-place-finish\/\">Zhu Yi<\/a>, freeskier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/02\/meet-the-american-skier-seeking-multiple-olympic-golds-for-communist-china\/\">Eileen Gu<\/a>, and hockey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2022\/02\/03\/meet-the-american-hockey-players-who-are-trying-win-olympic-gold-communist-china\/\">players<\/a>&nbsp;Jake Chelios and Jeremy Smith.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"video-src-attr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/author\/matt-perdie\/\">Matt Perdie<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe U.S. has democracy, it has human rights,\u201d she said. \u201cThey grew up with that value, and yet they went and [represented] the Chinese Communist Party, which doesn\u2019t allow you to speak up the truth, which doesn\u2019t allow you to do any protests, which doesn\u2019t allow you to live like humans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very disappointed in them but I still have a little hope,\u201d she continued. \u201cI\u2019m asking them to think like a human, ask your conscience and find the truth \u2013 I am very disappointed but I am still asking them to turn and be on the right side.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has completely ignored people such as Ziawudun&nbsp;and organizations calling for the organization to relocate the Games to a free country. Prior to the Opening Ceremonies last week, IOC President Thomas Bach celebrated the defeat of \u201cboycott ghosts,\u201d explicitly denigrating those expressing human rights concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou may remember that at our IOC Sessions in January and July 2020, we could already see the dark clouds of the growing politicization of sport on the horizon,\u201d Bach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/national-security\/2022\/02\/04\/olympics-chief-declares-victory-against-boycott-ghosts-on-eve-of-genocide-games\/\">told<\/a> the IOC session held last week. \u201cWe also saw that, in some people\u2019s heads, the boycott ghosts of the past were rearing their ugly heads again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bach chided anyone expressing opposition to China\u2019s genocide as unfairly \u201cpoliticizing\u201d the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can only accomplish this mission if the Olympic Games stand above and beyond all political differences. This is only possible if the Olympic Games are politically neutral and do not become a tool to achieve political goals,\u201d Bach asserted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tursunay Ziawudun, a survivor of China\u2019s brutal concentration camp system for Uyghur people and other Muslim ethnic groups, accused NBC and Comcast of supporting genocide by airing the 2022 Beijing &#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-1279722","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\/1279722","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=1279722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1279722\/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=1279722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1279722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1279722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}