is at the centre of the uyghur experience personally and professionally, his family is from xinjiang, he now lives in exile and chairs the us commission on international religious freedoms. can international pressure save the uyghurs? nury turkel welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me back. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. now, your home is in the united states, your homeland is xinjiang in china. are you able today to get information from xinjiang to get a clear picture of what today s china strategy in that region is? yes, i have been able to get information through publicly available chinese government official statements and also leaked documents have recently been released, including international media organisations such as yours. also, i have been speaking with camp survivors and victims of the ongoing uyghur genocide. and, personally, even my own story, it tells me a lot about what is happening in the region, what is happening to the peo
in bucha, a suburb of kyiv. now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with stephen sackur. welcome to hardtalk, i m stephen sackur. china s treatment of the uyghur muslim minority living in xinjiang has stirred loud condemnation in the west. the us government uses the word genocide to condemn systematic abuse and repression, china calls that the lie of the century. my guest nury turkel is at the centre of the uyghur experience personally and professionally, his family is from xinjiang, he now lives in exile and chairs the us commission on international religious freedoms. can international pressure save the uyghurs? nury turkel welcome to hardtalk. thank you very much for having me back. it is a great pleasure to have you on the show. now, your home is in the united states, your homeland is xinjiang in china. are you able today to get information from xinjiang to get a clear picture of what today s china strategy in that region is? yes, i have been able to get information through publ
what do you believe beijing s strategy is? i have interviewed during the process of writing this book a number of camp survivors and indirect victims of the ongoing genocide. and i have a chapter specifically discuss how china systematically, purposely attacking uyghur women through forced sterilisation, even those who are in their mid 50s. and sexual violence that they force them to go through. also birth control policies as reported recently there is dramatic drop in the natural growth of the uyghur population. that gives you an idea that why those of us who advocated for official recognition of the tragedies of genocide and those of us calling the international community to hold those entities, individuals to account, it s based on this notion. close toi million uyghur children, 800,000 to a million uyghur children as reported
of the ways in which china is trying to take demographic control of xinjiang. it involves in particular policies directed towards women and women of child bearing age. what do you believe beijing s strategy is? i have interviewed during the process of writing this book a number of camp survivors and indirect victims of the ongoing genocide. and i have a chapter specifically discuss how china systematically, purposely attacking uyghur women through forced sterilisation, even those who are in their mid 50s. and sexual violence that they force them to go through. also birth control policies as reported recently there is dramatic drop in the natural growth of the uyghur population. that gives you an idea that why those of us who advocated for official recognition of atrocities of genocide
that many specific things where if democrats are in control, it goes one way. and if republicans are in control, it goes 180 degrees the opposite way. usually, yeah, there s things in which the parties disagree, definitely. there is a reason for partisanship. usually it s a little fuzzy around the edges when it comes to specific policies. there s a little overlap, a little uncertainty. not on this, though. this is the brightest policy line of them all. everywhere, where republicans are in control, they have been moving to prioritize anti-abortion and increasingly, anti birth control policies. still. still, in 2015. and when democrats are in control, conversely, they try to undo those things. the great state of virginia have odd year elections and as republican as things went nationwide in 2014, virginia went in the opposite direction in 2013, virginia had had a whole slate of republican statewide elected officials from bob mcdonnell and ken cuccinelli on down heading into those 2013