Image: Abduwel Ayup Twitter On ‘International Mother Language Day’, let us not forget the Uyghur poets, writers and intellectuals who have paid a heavy price for promoting the Uyghur language. Uyghur poet Qasim Sidiq is one such author. He was sentenced to 15 in prison for his writings about the […]
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Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City n Terror Capitalism anthropologist Darren Byler theorizes the contemporary Chinese colonization of the Uyghur Muslim minority group in the northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang. He shows that the mass detention of over one million Uyghurs in “reeducation camps” is part of processes […]
Anwer Ablimit, a renowned Uyghur musician, used to work for an oil extraction unit in Karamay. His nephew in exile lost contact with him in 2017. In 2019 he heard that Ablimit had been sentenced to 15 years in prison by the Chinese government. The nephew does not know his whereabouts.
A riveting investigation into how a restive region of China became the site of a nightmare Orwellian social experiment—the definitive police state—and the global technology giants that made it possible Blocked from facts and truth, under constant surveillance, surrounded by a hostile alien police force: Xinjiang’s Uyghur population has become cursed, […]
by Mamtimin Ala Uyghurs are descendants of Turkic peoples, currently facing genocide committed against them in their homeland, East Turkistan. This land has been colonized by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1949, creating a police state and renamed Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In his book, Worse than Death: Reflections […]
Jan 4, 2020 No Road Back Home By Abduqadir Jalalidin Translated into English by: Joshua L. Freeman In this forgotten place I have no lover’s touchEach night brings darker dreams, I have no amuletMy life is all I ask, I have no other thirstThese silent thoughts torment, I have no […]
How China is using the US-led war on terror to erase the cultural identity of its Muslim minority in the Xinjiang region Within weeks of the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, the Chinese government warned that it faced a serious terrorist threat from its Uyghur ethnic minority, […]
STOP THE 21ST CENTURY HOLOCAUST: The Plight of the Uyghur People in Modern China A book written by an American high school student about the plight of Uyghurs Reviewed and Contributed to Uighur Times by Fatimah Abdulghafur Seyyah Aug 28, 2019 Ian Evans, an American high school student, published […]
One Voice, One Step, a Uighur women’s initiative is going to organize a photo exhibition themed: Concentration Camps are back, “Never Again” is being tested. The announcement said “Millions of Uighurs are in indefinite detention in Soviet Gulag styled Concentration camps in the ocuupied land of North West China.” The […]
By Memet Emin A special photographs exhibition “I can’t sleep – Homage to Uighur homeland” by Lisa Ross is taking place from January 17 to February 23 at Miyako Yoshinaga Gallery, New York City. During the first three days of exhibition, the exhibition featured several innovative cultural programs by Lisa […]