Amnesty International organised a press conference in downtown Toronto in connection with the plight of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. One of the speakers was Rebiya Kadeer, a Uyghur activist who spent over five years in a Chinese jail on the charge of “leaking state secrets” after sending newspaper clippings to her husband in the United States. Since the Chinese Communist Party came to power in China in 1949, Kadeer said the Uyghur language and culture have been suppressed. The Chinese regime has consistently vilified the minority group as anti-China separatists. After the 9/11 attack in the United States in 2001, the regime began branding the Uyghurs as terrorists, making the situation worse. She told the tale of Uyghur “separatists” driven around in trucks prior to being executed and how Uyghur spectators are forced to applaud the execution. Kadeer noted that the victims may not even be separatists, but are executed to keep everyone else in a state of fear. Chinese authorities have stepped up their suppression of the Uyghur minority in advance of this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing, she added.
GENOCIDE OF MUSLIMS IN CHINA
Amnesty International organised a press conference in downtown Toronto in connection with the plight of China’s Uyghur Muslim minority. One of the speakers was Rebiya Kadeer, a Uyghur activist who spent over five years in a Chinese jail on the charge of “leaking state secrets” after sending newspaper clippings to her husband in the United…
