Uyghurs in Paris joined the Nowruz celebrations on Saturday, March 19, hosted by the European Uyghur Institute, Uyghur Times Uyghur Edition reports.
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There is an intense rivalry for public opinion in Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country globally, on China’s maltreatment of Uyghurs.
We were ordered to deny who we were. To spit on our own traditions, our beliefs. To criticise our language. To insult our own people. Women like me, who emerged from the camps, are no longer who we once were. We are shadows; our souls are dead.
Today, the whole world is in mourning, sympathizing with the Ukrainian people, who are dealing with a war started by an enemy many times more powerful than theirs — and praying to God that a similar fate should not befall them.
Yesterday, the Russian airstrikes killed five people in the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The infamous ravine saw 33,771 Jews killed by the Nazis in 24 hours during WW2.
The US Uyghur Mother Tongue School in Fairfax, Virginia, hosted a ‘Mother Tongue Day’ event attended by the parents of the Uyghur students and many regular Americans learning Uyghur.
Turkey has rejected citizenship and residence permit applications of thousands of Uyghurs living in Turkey, a Turkish Tum Habeler reports.
The Beijing Winter Olympics kicked off on April 4, 2022, with the Uyghur genocide still raging in East Turkestan (Xinjiang of China). This is the same as a wedding taking place next to a funeral. One of the most common and long-held rules of etiquette is not to hold a wedding on the day of a neighbor’s funeral.
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), one of the leading global development banks, has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in loans to companies in the Chinese occupied Uyghursistan (that China refers to as Xinjiang), reveals a new report released by Atlantic Council, Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice and NomoGaia.
Nuctech, a Chinese company with close ties to the Chinese military and the ruling Communist Party, has won a procurement to provide safety control at Stockholm’s Arlanda Airport Terminal 5, Swedish Aftonbladet reports.