DC Uyghur restaurant owner: 'This Olympic is genocide Olympics'

Owner of DC Uyghur restaurant says 2022 Olympics are 'like 1936 Nazi Germany Olympics'

Washington, D.C. – Uyghur restaurant owner, Hamid Kerim, said he cannot watch the Olympics because it reminds him of his brother and sister-in-law who are imprisoned in his home of Xinjiang. 

"If I watch this Olympic, in my eyes I can see my brothers, my sister, my nation and my motherland. His very difficult life in jail. Very difficult life in camp very difficult life in cheap labor factory. So, I cannot watch this Olympic," Kerim told Fox News. 

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The 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing have been boycotted by Uyghurs and human rights advocates for granting legitimacy to China despite its persecution of ethnic minorities. The genocide against the Uyghurs in the western Chinese province of Xinjiang has been ongoing since 2017, according to a 2020 report released by the State Department. 

Dolan Uyghur Restaurant owner, Hamid Kerim, speaks with Fox News Digital .

Kerim said: "CCP never respect for Uyghur, never respect for Uyghur culture, never respect for Uyghur human rights. So I think this Olympic is genocide Olympics, this is no normal Olympic."

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"This Olympic like 1936 Nazi Germany Olympics," Kerim said, "Because now CCP give Uyghur people for genocide, killing Uyghur people, killing Uyghur people culture."

Kerim moved to the United States in 2017 after friends told him the government was imprisoning people in his home of Xinjiang, which he refers to as East Turkistan.

"I lost my old company, old business in my motherland. I start everything, have to start anew. First thing, I have to learn English to start my new life in this country and 2018