Activist Defending Ethnic Kazakhs In China Explains Why He Had To Flee Kazakhstan
January 18, 2021 20:05 GMT
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Tens of thousands of ethnic Kazakhs in China s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have been sent to reeducation camps along with hundreds of thousands of others from that western province after being rounded up by China because they are Muslims.
Serikzhan Bilash is one of the people who helped bring this great injustice to light by exposing the suffering of ethnic Kazakhs at the camps in Xinjiang.
An ethnic Kazakh from Xinjiang who moved to neighboring Kazakhstan in 2000, Bilash received Kazakh citizenship in 2011 under the oralman program, which was designed in 1991 to entice ethnic Kazakhs abroad to resettle in sparsely inhabited Kazakhstan.