The Ghulja Massacre of 1997 and the Face of Uyghur Genocide Today
24 years ago, a brutal crackdown on Uyghur protesters changed one family’s lives forever. Incredibly, things have only gotten worse for the Uyghurs since then.
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February 05, 2021
Saliha (right) and Abdurazzak Shamseden, the author’s brother, who was detained in 1998 and subsequently handed a life sentence for “splittism.”
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Every time I see the deep, round scars on her wrists and arms, I think of the blood flowing out of the holes that made them, dripping onto the floor of that grim torture room in the Ghulja city police station, as she is tortured to confess to crimes that do not exist. She is Saliha, my sister, one of thousands of youths in Ghulja whose lives turned into a nightmare after the Ghulja massacre.
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Twitter suspended Chinese embassy account over tweet about Uygur women (Update)
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John SextonPosted at 12:35 pm on January 21, 2021
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Twitter was so busy purging people on the right this month that it didn’t have time to deal with much else. So when an official Chinese account for the Embassy to the United States published this tweet two weeks ago, there was no reaction:
As you can see, there were tens of thousands of people quote tweeting that at the time. You can still see some of the immediate reactions to the tweet at Twitchy:
We expect India to intervene to stop the genocide: Uyghur leader
We expect India to intervene to stop the genocide: Uyghur leader
Last Updated: Wed, Dec 30th, 2020, 09:05:31hrs
Thiruvananthapuram: China s persecuted Uyghurs expect India to give up its silence and step in to prevent the genocide of the community, unlike other major powers, including Islamic nations, which are silent on the issue, a leading Uyghur leader has said.
Talking to IANS, World Uyghur Congress President Dolkun Isa, who is living in exile in Germany, said that India has a strong influence internationally and should intervene to stop the Uyghur genocide.
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