What future for the Uyghur people?
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Demonstrators from the Uyghur Community protest in France, on Place du Trocadero in Paris on March 24, 2019 to raise awareness about their plight AFP - KENZO TRIBOUILLARD
By: Adrien Delgrange
21 min
“I think of all those sleepless nights, in the cold, with chained feet.
I think of malnutrition, we are so malnourished.
Our guards force us to go out every day, even when it's minus 30 degrees.
We spend our days learning the house rules posted on the walls and Chinese patriotic songs. ”
Extract from a rare testimony broadcast this morning on RFI, that of Gulbahar Haitiwaji, author of the book entitled "Survivor of the Chinese Gulag", written with journalist Rozenn Morgat and has just been published by Équateurs.
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Even if some languages are loosened, the Chinese regime's policy of oppression towards the Uyghurs persists.
Beijing denies all accusations.
Accusations sometimes loaded with meaning, last example: the United States now considers that China is "committing genocide" against Uyghur Muslims in the Xinjiang region, declared on January 19, 2021 the outgoing US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, on the eve of Joe Biden's arrival at the White House.
What is the international community doing to help the Uyghurs?
Why are Muslim countries silent on the Uyghur issue?
Has the ICC been seized?
With our guests
Dilnur Reyhan,
president of the Uyghur Institute of Europe, sociologist, teacher at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO);
Rémi Castets,
research professor, lecturer at Bordeaux Montaigne University and specialist in Xinjiang.
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