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A member of the Uighur people lit the Olympic cauldron for the Beijing Winter Games at the opening ceremony on Friday. Cross country skier Dinigeer Yilamujiang, 21, lit the cauldron together with Zhao Jiawen, the first man to represent CHina in Nordic combined skier, at National Stadium. China has come under fire from western nations for its treatment of the Uighur people, a largely Muslim ethnic group in the province of Xinjiang. People who have escaped the Xinjiang region that is home to many Uighurs allege that people are rounded up and sent to facilities – dubbed re-education centres – whe…