The risk of the Uyghur genocide being forgotten is a grave concern. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has not only employed deliberate and calculated tactics to conceal its genocide and crimes against humanity in East Turkestan but has also orchestrated a campaign to ensure others forget it is happening. Gregory H. Stanton, the president of … Read more
Every exiled Uyghur carries a load: the “enormous pain, the hole in your heart, the burden on your shoulder and the nightmare in your sleep,” in the words of Yalkun Uluyol. Uluyol’s father is serving a 16-year prison sentence; an uncle has been condemned to life; and 30 or so other family members are serving … Read more
This week, a man U.S. President Joe Biden has accused of genocide will arrive in San Francisco so that the two can meet. It will be Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s first trip to the United States since 2017. During this period, he has presided over atrocity crimes targeting Uyghurs and other Turkic … Read more
Advertisement A little-known United Nations body, the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, is helping to shine a light on the extent of China’s enforced disappearances in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. Starting from 2017, Chinese authorities intensified a large-scale campaign of repression that aimed to fundamentally transform the social, cultural, and religious life of this … Read more
Advertisement In his haunting 1956 memoir “Night,” Elie Wiesel recounts the horrors he endured during the Holocaust and how indifference to the suffering of millions shook his faith in humanity. In the book’s 2006 preface, he explains that his manuscript was originally “rejected by every major publisher.” Then he notes a seachange 50 years later. … Read more