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In 2008, Michael Clarke, an Australian terrorism scholar, noted that "there has emerged within the Uighur émigré community a tendency to portray the Uighurs as experiencing a form of 'cultural genocide '", citing as an example a 2004 speech by World Uyghur Congress president Erkin Alptekin. [305]
The Xinjiang conflict (Chinese: 新疆冲突, Pinyin: xīnjiāng chōngtú), also known as the East Turkistan conflict, Uyghur–Chinese conflict or Sino-East Turkistan conflict (as argued by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile), [12] is an ethnic geopolitical conflict in what is now China's far-northwest autonomous region of Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan.
The OHCHR Assessment of human rights concerns in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China is a report published on 31 August 2022 by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) concerning the treatment of Uyghurs and other largely Muslim groups in China.
The Uyghurs are a Turkic, majority Muslim ethnicity native to China’s far west Xinjiang region. After decades of conflict with Beijing over discrimination and suppression of their cultural identity, the Chinese government launched a brutal crackdown on the Uyghurs that some Western governments deem a genocide.
The U.N. accused China of serious human rights violations that may amount to “crimes against humanity” in a long-delayed report examining a crackdown on Uyghurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic ...
Apartheid, torture, "re-education", mosque destruction, Mandarin replacing Uyghur language in schools, government surveillance, forced consumption of alcohol, sexual assault [1] Turkel praises Mike Pompeo for calling the actions genocide and praises Joe Biden for passing the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
"This is an effort by the Chinese to distract us from the real issue here at hand, that Uyghurs are being tortured," the US Ambassador to the UN said.
Beijing controls and exploits Uyghur farmers through four main mechanisms: forced agricultural production, land grabbing by Chinese corporations, the forced labor of farmers and of camp detainees ...