Dear World Health Organisation, My name is Fatimah Abdulghafur. I am a Uighur from East Turkistan, aka Xinjiang, currently living in Australia. All members of my direct family (total 4) in Kashgar, East Turkistan had been illegally detained and put into concentration camps and prison since 2016. I […]
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The Uyghur Muslims: A Global Scheme and The Family of Nations by Zaynab Abdullah (Educator) (http://www.etaa.org.au/who-are-the-uyghurs/where-is-east-turkistan/) A Game of Thrones Regarding the current policies in China against the Uyghur Muslims, the Family of Nations positions Uyghur, the nation, as a pawn for the total annihilation of the Islamic world. While the United States bars […]
By Meripet Since 2016, many diaspora Uyghurs have been asking the Chinese regime the whereabouts of their missing families in East Turkistan (AKA Xinjiang) on Western media platforms. Although media questioning did not put an end to China’s cruel crack down on Uyghurs in their homeland, however, the Western world […]
By Mehmet Tohti Jan 2, 2020 The parliamentary vote setting up a special committee to review Canada’s China policy could be seen as an initial response to China’s growing bullying and assertiveness, which for too long has paralyzed Canada’s China policy. China’s new Ambassador to Canada, Cong Peiwu, undiplomatically […]
Dec 12, 2019, Washington DC Uighur Times exclusive By Tahir imin Chinese authorities intensified the control over the Uighur region after the U.S. House passed the UIGHUR Act on Dec 3, according to information obtained by the Uighur Times. The email of Uighur Times’ Uighur language service has […]
by Abdurehim Gheni Uyghur Dr. Olsi Jazexhi is a Canadian-Albanian historian who is specialized in the history of Islam, nationalism and he is a university lecturer. He was one of the reporters on the pre-arranged “visit” in East Turkistan (a.k.a. Xinjiang) arranged by China to tell the world via […]
by Abdurehim Gheni Uyghur East Turkestan is an occupied nation by China, and Uighurs regard East Turkestan as their homeland and have never been a part of China. The fight between Chinese government and Uighurs are the fight between a colonizer and a nation being colonized. China have built the […]
First, I would like to express my gratitude to the U.S. House of Representatives for humanitarian effort to the Uighur disaster. Second, I would like to express my gratitude to the U.S. House of Representatives for understanding our plight at our most difficult times. Today, U.S. House of Representatives […]
#NeverAgain is happening again. This time the victims are the #Uyghurs and other Turkic minorities in the occupied East Turkistan (aka Xinjiang, China). In fact, ‘Xinjiang’ literally means ‘New Colony’ in English. Nevertheless, the majority of Uyghurs never endorsed or advocated for independence for once an independent country #EastTurkistan. The vast majority of the […]
Qatar’s decision to withdraw its signature from among the 37 countries who signed a joint letter to endorse China’s concentration camps in East Turkistan (so-called Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region) is not only showing sympathy towards the Uyghur people suffering in the camps, but more importantly it is about protecting its […]