Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
Ghulja Massacre and China’s Ongoing Repression of Uyghurs
February 5, 2013 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Today marks the 16th anniversary of the February 5, 1997 massacre in Ghulja city, which like many of the Chinese state-sponsored acts of cultural genocide and oppression against the Uyghur people has been tragically overlooked by the international community. The Ghulja Massacre’s origins were rooted…
Read MoreArt on Uyghurs in NYC Highlights China’s Information Control
December 7, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project To inaugurate Forever & Today’s gallery opening in New York’s Chinatown in 2008, the artist collective Slavs and Tatars made a poster: “Keep Your Majorities Close But Your Minorities Closer.” Slavs and Tatars focuses on Eurasia from the Berlin Wall to the Great Wall of…
Read MoreXinhua Uyghur’s Limited Coverage of Leadership Change
November 20, 2012 Greg Fay, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project Xi Jinping, the newly selected General Secretary of China’s Communist Party, held his inaugural press conference last week. His speech, promptly translated on Xinhua’s English site, references China’s obligations to ethnic minority citizens repeatedly. Yet Xinhua’s Uyghur service did not provide a translation of the…
Read MoreUyghurs in Bermuda Still Targets of Misconceptions
October 4, 2012 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project The latest to emerge on four Uyghurs released from Guantanamo to Bermuda is an interview by Maureen Callahan with three of the four men for an opinion piece in the New York Post. After 9/11 the US military held 22 Uyghur men at Guantanamo, all…
Read MorePork and Terrorism in Pan Guang Talk
September 26, 2012 Matt James, Intern, Uyghur Human Rights Project Dr. Pan Guang is Vice Chairman of Shanghai’s Center for International Studies. He spoke last week on the topic “Understanding China’s Role in Central Asia and Afghanistan,” at the Jamestown Foundation in Washington, D.C., webcast here online. Regarding the Uyghurs’ role in this relationship, Pan…
Read MoreOf Sandstorms and Nuclear Tests
February 27, 2012 Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project The Uyghurs in Kashgar are used to sandstorms. The city’s location in an oasis on the edge of a vast desert makes it a reality of life there. When the wind picks up far out to the north and east and arrives in Kashgar with…
Read More“Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”
September 13, 2011 A new report, “Offers They Can’t Refuse: China’s Relations with the Muslim World”, examines the Chinese government’s relationships with the governments of predominantly Muslim countries, and how these relationships have muted the Muslim world’s response to China’s repression of the Uyghur people. Written by Uyghur Human Rights Project intern Jessica Smith, the…
Read MoreWestern companies profit from state development in East Turkestan
July 22, 2011 Amy Reger, Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project According to Chinese and Western media reports, the world’s largest private-sector coal company, the St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, inked a massive deal with the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region government and the Communist Party of Xinjiang on July 14 to develop a coal surface mine that…
Read MoreSummer Travels
June 24, 2011 Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project In an age when you are liable to be charged for the smallest service on an airline, carrying excess baggage around seems like a burden that should be best avoided. All the same, the weight of human abuses that leaders in some of the most…
Read MoreMy beloved school’s name will be wiped out from East Turkestan history
January 18, 2011 Introduction: In the past two decades, and with increasing intensity since 2002, China has pursued assimilationist policies aimed at eliminating Uyghur as a language of instruction in East Turkestan. Employing the term bilingual education, the Chinese government is, in reality, implementing a monolingual Chinese language education system that undermines the linguistic basis…
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