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Has Kazakhstan Failed Xinjiang's Ethnic Kazakhs?


Has Kazakhstan Failed Xinjiang’s Ethnic Kazakhs?
The Ak Orda Presidential Palace in Kazakhstan. (Ninara, https://flic.kr/p/dFScYU; CC BY 2.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
China’s brutal repression campaign against the Uighurs in Xinjiang, labeled a genocide by the United States, has also implicated the region’s nearly 1.6 million ethnic Kazakhs. Kazakhstan, which shares a long border with Xinjiang, was an epicenter of activism in the early months and years of the crackdown many of the first victims who testified on the world stage were ethnic Kazakhs who had witnessed the camps and fled to Kazakhstan. This left Kazakhstan’s government, led by authoritarian strongmen but weak in comparison to China’s Xi Jinping, walking a fine line: heeding its compatriots’ calls to support Kazakhs and fellow Turkic Muslims in China without risking China’s immense economic investments in Kazakhstan. But this economic dependence, now at its strongest point in h ....

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Kazakh Activism Against China's Internment Camps Is Broken, But Not Dead


Kazakh Activism Against China s Internment Camps Is Broken, But Not Dead
April 04, 2021 12:12 GMT
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When 67-year-old pensioner Qalida Akytkhan decided to join a small protest outside the Chinese Consulate in Almaty, it was three years after three of her sons were detained at a so-called reeducation camp in China s northwestern Xinjiang region.
Akytkhan has since become a mainstay at the pickets that, despite police intimidation, have endured outside the consulate since early February. She has joined dozens of other protesters who say their relatives are missing, jailed, or trapped in China s ongoing crackdown.
United Nations human rights officials estimate that a million or more Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other Muslim minorities are detained at camps in a vast Chinese internment system. ....

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