China’s 2022 Olympics push erased Uyghur communities for ski infrastructure.
Evidence
Leading up to the games, which were staged against a boycott launched by various Uyghur Muslim groups, I wrote about the soft power play Beijing envisioned in Xinjiang paralleling its ongoing genocide: “In the lead up to the Olympics, there has been a concerted government push to promote Xinjiang as a snow sport destination, accelerating the removal of the indigenous Uyghur to make way for ski lifts, slopes and foreign brands ready to build showrooms atop razed mosques and bulldozed communities.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 564
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- ADDENDUM: Parallels the ‘Grafting & Growth’ infrastructure angle — here infrastructure (ski resorts) as a weapon displacing an indigenous people rather than a life-giving tree system.