Posts Tagged ‘UHRP Insights’
Western 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…
Read MoreWikileaks and the Uyghur
December 20, 2011 Henryk Szadziewski, Manager, Uyghur Human Rights Project If it were ever in doubt, information obtained by the whistleblower website, Wikileaks, has confirmed Chinese government fears over its continued control of the region it calls Xinjiang, which is also known as East Turkestan. The leaked cables from U.S. diplomats demonstrate the extent to…
Read MoreA Visit to Tongxin Middle School
November 8, 2010 Amy Reger, Researcher, Uyghur Human Rights Project In a recent article published by Phoenix New Media, reporter Qi Rui describes a visitto TongxinMiddleSchool, a schoolcomprised of Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Hui students located in an impoverished area of East Turkestan’s Kizilsu Kirghiz Autonomous Prefecture.[1] Qi’s visitis part of an exploration into the…
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