Fourteen years apart, two young Uyghurs gripped the Olympic torch. One is now in the U.S., his father in prison.
It was a politically charged message. A smiling Uyghur woman gripped the Olympic torchon Friday in Beijing. To another Uyghur, who ran with the Olympic flame 14 years ago, it seemed to be “an elevated form of puppetry.”
China’s choice of 20-year-old cross-country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang to deliver the flame together with another skier from the country’s dominant Han ethnicity represented an unmistakable assertion of ethnic harmony, and a defiant
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