Uyghur cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang called it "a huge honor" to light the cauldron for the 2022 Winter Olympics opening ceremony hosted in Beijing on Friday, according to China's official Xinhua News Agency."That moment will encourage me every day for the rest of my life," the 20-year-old ethnic minority woman from the far-western Xinjiang region told Xinhua on Sunday, with the report making no mention of foreign accusations that the Chinese government is engaged in human rights abuses in her home region.Concern over treatment of Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang has led the United Sta…READ FULL ARTICLE
