Saving the Uyghurs
from IMPACT: With Avi Abraham Benlolo Hosted by Avi Abraham Benlolo
On October 17, 2020, The Economist published a major feature about the plight of the Uyghurs. In its introduction, it said, "The first stories from Xinjiang were hard to believe. Surely the Chinese government was not running a gulag for Muslims? Surely Uyghurs were not being branded “extremists” and locked up simply for praying in public or growing long beards? Yet, as we report in this week’s China section (see article), the evidence of a campaign against the Uyghurs at home and abroad becomes more shocking with each scouring of the satellite evidence, each leak of official documents and each survivor’s pitiful account". Join me for an insightful conversation with Mehmet Tohti, the executive director of the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project to understand what today many are calling a crime of humanity. He describes the plight of his people and a cry for help for an end to what he calls a genocide.
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