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Rebiya Kadeer: President of World Uyghur Congress. It's her 7th time visiting Japan. Below is a lot of (but not all) from her 20 min presentation and the Q&A. Take it for what you can. Possibility of exaggerations, etc. Of course, CCP is not trustworthy.. so anyway, take it for what you can. But I'm sure the beef of it is not off the mark.
The situation in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) has become worse under Xi Jinping. 1,000s of Uyghur have ran away from East Turkestan to neighboring countries while PRC continues to claim that they brought prosperity to the region. Before him, Uyghur protesters would typically get arrested and go through a trial with the decision of death or jail time. Now the police are quicker to just shoot to kill rather than arresting.
An example of an incident giving that happened on July 27th, 2014, a group of women wanted to pray in a house while the men were praying at a Mosque during Ramadan. The Chinese security forces broke into the house on the basis of illegal religious activity and killed 12 people including a 3 year old and a 70 year old woman. When the Uyghur men returned, they naturally protested the brutality, moving the dead bodies to in front of a police station. The Uyghur wanted those that made the raid into the house to be punished. But the police just opened fire on the protesting Uyghurs resulting in 100s dead including children. Chinese media Xinhua reported it as China security forces killing terrorists. Then the Chinese military launched an operation using helicopters against 3 villages resulting 100s more killed. The international media just quoted Xinhua as to what happened. But when international reporters went into Xinjiang to investigate, the Xinhua admitted that there was a crackdown. There was a smilar use of helicopters attacking a village in the year before.
Under the title of War on Terror, the each Uyghur is easily made suspect by the Chinese security forces under Xi Jinping. All people in China receive an identification card. But unlike all the other cards, the Uyghur cards have a chip inside which will make a sound whenever scanned, thus prompting a search on the individual Uyghur.
There is police and military forces all over so incidents of violence and disappearances happen everyday through out East Turkestan. The Chinese government claims it is all internal affairs so they say that the international community has no right to interfere but Rebiya Kadeer is claiming that the situation warrants international interference because of how bad the situation has become.
To a question about the Thai bombing suspecting Uyghur action and the killing of Han Chinese by knives at Kunming train station, her reply was that such actions are condemned World Uighur Congress. But she went on saying that in the case of the Kunming train station incident, the Chinese had a secret trial with the captured suspects and killed three of them. No information was released so the World Uighur Congress is trying to gather information they can about it and that things can't be confirmed because of how the Chinese government handled handles it. Another point was that 20 years ago, such high tensions between the Han and Uyghur didn't exist although the Uyghurs were always suppressed. But that it has gotten far worse and that is causing the Uyghurs to become violent recently. An example to another question was of religious repression. Chinese security forces forced Uygurs to eat in front of them during Ramadan, a period when they don't normally eat.
Another point during the Q&A, the Chinese government keeps the Uyghurs that live within Chinese borders separate from international news. So they have no idea what goes on outside of China. If any is caught listening to international news, they get 10-12 years jail time.
Another point is that the World Uighur Congress wishes countries to have good relations and economic relations with China but they wish for those democratic countries to raise the issues in Xinjiang and the repression of the Uyghur people when dealing with China.
In 2006, China made a policy of transfering Uyghur girls and women from East Turkestan into the mainland and in 2007 they said they transferred 24,000 girls, completing the policy. Any parents that resisted were accused as terrorists and put in jail. SInce then, the Chinese government continued to transfer girls. The excuse giving is that they are providing jobs. But that has to be a lie because on the flip side, China is transferring many Han to East Turkestan and building housing, etc, for them to work. SO jobs could have been provided for the girls in East Turkestan, so goes that argument. Uyghurs don't have the right to work in the resource rich land of East Turkestan (Xinjiang). 86% of the Uyghur population are farmers but the Chinese have been confiscating the farm land and when the Uygurs protests, they get beaten. Every Uyghur family has someone that has spend years in prison.
The situation in East Turkestan (Xinjiang) has become worse under Xi Jinping. 1,000s of Uyghur have ran away from East Turkestan to neighboring countries while PRC continues to claim that they brought prosperity to the region. Before him, Uyghur protesters would typically get arrested and go through a trial with the decision of death or jail time. Now the police are quicker to just shoot to kill rather than arresting.
An example of an incident giving that happened on July 27th, 2014, a group of women wanted to pray in a house while the men were praying at a Mosque during Ramadan. The Chinese security forces broke into the house on the basis of illegal religious activity and killed 12 people including a 3 year old and a 70 year old woman. When the Uyghur men returned, they naturally protested the brutality, moving the dead bodies to in front of a police station. The Uyghur wanted those that made the raid into the house to be punished. But the police just opened fire on the protesting Uyghurs resulting in 100s dead including children. Chinese media Xinhua reported it as China security forces killing terrorists. Then the Chinese military launched an operation using helicopters against 3 villages resulting 100s more killed. The international media just quoted Xinhua as to what happened. But when international reporters went into Xinjiang to investigate, the Xinhua admitted that there was a crackdown. There was a smilar use of helicopters attacking a village in the year before.
Under the title of War on Terror, the each Uyghur is easily made suspect by the Chinese security forces under Xi Jinping. All people in China receive an identification card. But unlike all the other cards, the Uyghur cards have a chip inside which will make a sound whenever scanned, thus prompting a search on the individual Uyghur.
There is police and military forces all over so incidents of violence and disappearances happen everyday through out East Turkestan. The Chinese government claims it is all internal affairs so they say that the international community has no right to interfere but Rebiya Kadeer is claiming that the situation warrants international interference because of how bad the situation has become.
To a question about the Thai bombing suspecting Uyghur action and the killing of Han Chinese by knives at Kunming train station, her reply was that such actions are condemned World Uighur Congress. But she went on saying that in the case of the Kunming train station incident, the Chinese had a secret trial with the captured suspects and killed three of them. No information was released so the World Uighur Congress is trying to gather information they can about it and that things can't be confirmed because of how the Chinese government handled handles it. Another point was that 20 years ago, such high tensions between the Han and Uyghur didn't exist although the Uyghurs were always suppressed. But that it has gotten far worse and that is causing the Uyghurs to become violent recently. An example to another question was of religious repression. Chinese security forces forced Uygurs to eat in front of them during Ramadan, a period when they don't normally eat.
Another point during the Q&A, the Chinese government keeps the Uyghurs that live within Chinese borders separate from international news. So they have no idea what goes on outside of China. If any is caught listening to international news, they get 10-12 years jail time.
Another point is that the World Uighur Congress wishes countries to have good relations and economic relations with China but they wish for those democratic countries to raise the issues in Xinjiang and the repression of the Uyghur people when dealing with China.
In 2006, China made a policy of transfering Uyghur girls and women from East Turkestan into the mainland and in 2007 they said they transferred 24,000 girls, completing the policy. Any parents that resisted were accused as terrorists and put in jail. SInce then, the Chinese government continued to transfer girls. The excuse giving is that they are providing jobs. But that has to be a lie because on the flip side, China is transferring many Han to East Turkestan and building housing, etc, for them to work. SO jobs could have been provided for the girls in East Turkestan, so goes that argument. Uyghurs don't have the right to work in the resource rich land of East Turkestan (Xinjiang). 86% of the Uyghur population are farmers but the Chinese have been confiscating the farm land and when the Uygurs protests, they get beaten. Every Uyghur family has someone that has spend years in prison.
