Beijing has for years encouraged Han Chinese men to settle in the Uyghurs’ homeland. According to Xinjiang Daily (China News, 2014), Han Chinese settlers in the four prefectures in southern ‘Xinjiang’ (Uyghuristan / East Turkistan) had access to more flexible family-planning policies. The Implementation Plan also proposed improved education, health, family planning, employment, social security, housing, and land use.
The University College London recently put up a ‘Xinjiang” dance performance. Uyghur culture is not only appropriated but is subsequently used to present a version of the Uyghur region in which genocide is not taking place
The Chinese government has a long record of attacking Uyghur groups in the diaspora.
On a winter night in London, a teenage girl was holding a microphone reading out the numerous names of ethnic minorities who were suspected to be detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in ‘Xinjiang’ (that Uyghurs prefer to call Uyghuristan or East Turkistan)
“What is genocide?” According to Zhao Li Jian, the Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry, “the U.S. policy toward Native Americans is the ‘real’ genocide.”
By Anne Kader Around fifty Uyghurs participated in carrying the Olympic torch in Beijing in 2008. One of them was Abduqeyum Semet (阿不都克尤木.赛买提), Abduweli Ayup, an Uyghur scholar, writes on his Twitter. Semet, an Uyghur born in June 1962, was a graduate of Xinjiang Medical University. He later practiced as a […]
TOKYO – An Uyghur scholar, Abduhelil Abdureyim, a graduate of Chiba University in Japan, was extra-judicially detained in Urumqi in December 2021. Mr. Abdurehim had earlier returned to his homeland.
How China Spreads Its Propaganda Version of Life for Uyghurs
by Jeff Kao, ProPublica, and Raymond Zhong, Paul Mozur and Aaron Krolik, The New York Times
June 23, 2021, 5 a.m. EDT
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 […]
On Feb. 3, 2022, U.S. congressman Tom Suozzi of New York and dozens of activists of Uyghur, Tibetan, Hong Kong, and Southern Mongolian descent protested the Chinese government’s human rights violations.