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Flatout denying accusations of human rights abuse and at the same time flatout refusing to provide evidence of your innocence
No one is denying that you living genocidal criminals are whitewashing and projecting your crimes with thse accussations on your own victims and cynicial selfcongratulating farces you call "apologies" and "acknowledgements" every time you finished another dirty job and everyone knows you dont give an iota about the entire concept of evidence and nevermind justice, while at the same time preaching hollow phrases to others.

i have a habit of informing NATO, Russian and Chinese mass media companies, political parties, and intel organisation with ideas for preventing war and the suffering of the innocent.
now : do any of you China-supporters here do that?
I have a habit of telling US, NATO and other proxy shills promoting war and suffering with lies and hate every day to get of their high horse and get lost.
That seems to be miles more substantial than the narcissistic drivel and brainwashed coolaid you are constantly spewing about your perverted "peace with Western hegemonial characteristics" and "freedom of suppression under farcial pretenses of genocidal warmongers" nobody in this age can take serious anymore unless they grew up brainwashed from early age in some Western (read American) oligarchs propaganda echochamber dreamworld, where bombing the population is peace and sentencing children to death for being born in the wrong place is justice and broad day piracy is law and order. Which is one of the reasons why they turned to NSA bots just brainlessly flooding and obstructing any kind of digital platforms with dirt and noise from their state run echochambers to drown organic international resistance to genocidal regimes and their brainwashed followers preaching phrases and pointing fingers at anyone but the criminals in the mirror.
 
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no dude, i haven't.
whenever the evidence of harm done to innocents by NATO came from an independent source like wikipedia, i backed it, but also stated how and why that harm was unavoidable.

and where possible, i did write to my own governments, mass media companies and intel organisations, to actually reduce harm done in the future to innocents by NATO. i don't see you or your friends here doing that towards Beijing.

and i refuse to go far back into histories, where every country on Earth was at some point guilty of causing harm to innocents, for practical reasons.

you, on the other hand, *always* redirect attention away from China's present-day harm to innocents, with just about any accusation against NATO you can think of.
why should anyone write to the china's gov who has already improved the living well beings of xinjiang regions? Here are the facts: the region's population increases. Now contrast that with the indigenous indians in great America continent.
 
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why should anyone write to the china's gov who has already improved the living well beings of xinjiang regions? Here are the facts: the region's population increases. Now contrast that with the indigenous indians in great America continent.
The west refused to go to Xinjiang to check things out by themselves because they are afraid to see a place being portrayed as hell on earth around the clock by their media turns out to be a super modern, prosperous and amazingly beautiful heaven on earth whose development level can easily put most western countries to shame.
Xinjiang experienced unprecedented development and growth in the past couples of years, which could be the biggest event ever happened in the whole history of this region, but you would learn nothing at all about Xinjiang in this regard, the western media doesn't spend even a second to report Xinjiang's meteoric development and growth.
 
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anglos have too much blood on their hands, if anything, the pope should call forth divine judgement from god on the anglos
 
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Did Uyghur lose their culture, language and freedom to practice their identity unlike the indigenous Canadian who are beaten and torture for speaking their native language. Tell me, how many Canadian native still can speak their language?


They are even dedicated Uyghur speaking Channel in China until now. Tell me, do Canada has Canadian native speaking channel or drama promoting their traditional culture?

As of the 2016 census, Indigenous peoples in Canada totalled 1,673,785 people, or 4.9% of the national population, with 977,230 First Nations people, 587,545 Métis, and 65,025 Inuit. 7.7% of the population under the age of 14 are of Indigenous descent.[1] There are over 600 recognized First Nations governments or bands with distinctive cultures, languages, art, and music.[18][19] National Indigenous Peoples Day recognizes the cultures and contributions of Indigenous peoples to the history of Canada.[20]

Over one million Uyghurs and other Muslim peoples in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang are in mass internment camps, prisons, and other penal institutions where they are subjected to psychological stress, torture, and, as recently reported by the BBC, systematic rape. Outside these penal institutions, the Chinese government has placed the indigenous people of the region under constant surveillance using cutting-edge technologies, involuntarily sterilizes women, strips children from their families and sends them to boarding schools, and has dispatched hundreds of thousands of people into forced residential labor programs in factories throughout China. All the while, the Chinese state is erasing the Uyghur characteristics of the region,

For the past four years, the region of Xinjiang in Northwest China has witnessed the largest forced incarceration of an ethno-religious minority anywhere in the world since the Second World War: upwards of one million Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into internment camps for “re-education” and “thought transformation,” or into high-security prisons, or situations of forced labour. Recently, this situation came to the wider attention of the world when the word “genocide” – unqualified by the modifier “cultural” – was used to describe it. In this Reflection, I provide the background to the crisis, explain why the label “genocide” is now being used by growing numbers of scholars, activists, rights advocates, barristers, and politicians, and consider the legal and diplomatic channels that they propose to use to hold the PRC government to account.

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China lifted 800 million people out of poverty in the past 40 years, I guess this is the biggest harm that Chinese government did to the Chinese people, unprecedented harm never happened even in the whole human history.

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eh, were those statistics measured in exactly the same way in both 2000, and 2020?
was the value of the Yuan *honestly* adjusted *and* set according the average cost of living (rent, food, entertainment, etc)?

or were these factors manipulated to project a better result to the rest of the world.
i can't say i trust the national bureau of statistics of China very much.

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Adrian Zenz reported that the re-education camps also function as forced labor camps in which Uyghurs and Kazakhs produce various products for export, especially those made from cotton grown in Xinjiang.[241][242][243][244] The growing of cotton is central to the industry of the region as "43 percent of Xinjiang's exports are apparel, footwear, or textiles". In 2018, 84% of China's cotton was produced in the Xinjiang province.[245] Since cotton is grown and processed into textiles in Xinjiang, a November 2019 article from The Diplomat said that "the risk of forced labor exists at multiple steps in the creation of a product".[246]

In 2018, the Financial Times reported that the Yutian / Keriya county vocational training centre, among the largest of the Xinjiang re-education camps, had opened a forced labour facility including eight factories spanning shoemaking, mobile phone assembly and tea packaging, giving a base monthly salary of CN¥1,500. Between 2016 and 2018, the centre expanded 269 percent in total area.[173]

The Australian Strategic Policy Institute reported that from 2017 to 2019 more than 80,000 Uyghurs were shipped elsewhere in China for factory jobs that "strongly suggest forced labour".[247] Conditions of these factories were consistent with the stipulations of forced labor as defined by the International Labor Organization.[248][249]
 
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eh, were those statistics measured in exactly the same way in both 2000, and 2020?
was the value of the Yuan *honestly* adjusted *and* set according the average cost of living (rent, food, entertainment, etc)?

or were these factors manipulated to project a better result to the rest of the world.
i can't say i trust the national bureau of statistics of China very much.

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You still haven't answered me where is the canada indigenous language channel like the one I have posted for Uyghur in China. TV channel has far wide manner to reach more audience and is the truly way to preserve local culture.

While all u can do is post propanganda article which fabricated things like 1 million Uyghur in prison. Can't believe there are still idiot to believe such thing. 1 million prisoner? Do u know how much logistics it needs to house this amount?
 
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You still haven't answered me where is the canada indigenous language channel like the one I have posted for Uyghur in China. TV channel has far wide manner to reach more audience and is the truly way to preserve local culture.

While all u can do is post propanganda article which fabricated things like 1 million Uyghur in prison. Can't believe there are still idiot to believe such thing. 1 million prisoner? Do u know how much logistics it needs to house this amount?


and you post a link to a chinese-propaganda article about 'uighur tv', stating that this is the truth?!
 
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and you post a link to a chinese-propaganda article about 'uighur tv', stating that this is the truth?!
What does u prove when u post fake article with fabricated substance about China Uyghur concentration camp?

Feel free to search for Uyghur channel sponsor by China CCTV started since 1980 promoting Uyghur speaking culture and drama.

Unlike genocide white Canadian , who wipe off most native red Indian and then shred crocodile tears and make insincere apology. After destroying most red Indian culture. There nothing much left for them to continue past down of their heritage including language Not a single red Indian language channel are promoted or sponsor by Canada government.

I go to Xinjiang, plenty of uighur speaking their native , road sign also written in Chinese and uighur. Many uighur continue wear their traditional costume.

Unlike in Canada, most red Indian wipe out. Those left, most speak English or very little native language. No red Indian speaking channel, no road sign written in red Indian language. A cultural genocide in Canada is happening. And this disgusting country got the cheek to point finger at China.
 
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What does u prove when u post fake article with fabricated substance about China Uyghur concentration camp?

Feel free to search for Uyghur channel sponsor by China CCTV started since 1980 promoting Uyghur speaking culture and drama.

Unlike genocide white Canadian , who wipe off most native red Indian and then shred crocodile tears and make insincere apology. After destroying most red Indian culture. There nothing much left for them to continue past down of their heritage including language Not a single red Indian language channel are promoted or sponsor by Canada government.

I go to Xinjiang, plenty of uighur speaking their native , road sign also written in Chinese and uighur. Many uighur continue wear their traditional costume.

Unlike in Canada, most red Indian wipe out. Those left, most speak English or very little native language. No red Indian speaking channel, no road sign written in red Indian language. A cultural genocide in Canada is happening. And this disgusting country got the cheek to point finger at China.
you're hopelessly indoctrinated dude.
i'm gonna stop discussing things with you, coz all you know is how to point fingers at the other guys, and call yourselves innocent in the most obviously false ways.
 
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you're hopelessly indoctrinated dude.
i'm gonna stop discussing things with you, coz all you know is how to point fingers at the other guys, and call yourselves innocent in the most obviously false ways.
Loss of words and retreated.. loser! :enjoy:

I went to Xinjiang. Full of Uyghur culture activities. There are many Uighur who don't even speak China national language of mandarin. They just continue practice their uighur tradition way of life. If this is so called genocide by Chinese. This must be the most failure attempt by CCP.

In Canada. English and westernize are the only solution for red Indian.
 
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Loss of words and retreated.. loser! :enjoy:

I went to Xinjiang. Full of Uyghur culture activities. There are many Uighur who don't even speak China national language of mandarin. They just continue practice their uighur tradition way of life. If this is so called genocide by Chinese. This must be the most failure attempt by CCP.

In Canada. English and westernize are the only solution for red Indian.
i already highlighted that there are over 100 red indian government organisations in Canada, and that red indians these days make up about 5% of the canadian population.




How do you protect a culture that is being wiped out?

For Uighurs, this is more than just a hypothetical. Repressive measures against the ethnic minority have progressively worsened: The Chinese government has corralled more than 1 million of them into internment camps, where they have been subjected to political indoctrination, forced sterilization, and torture.

The targeting of the Uighurs isn’t limited to the camps. Since 2016, dozens of graveyards and religious sites have been destroyed. The Uighur language has been banned in Xinjiang schools in favor of Mandarin Chinese. Practicing Islam, the predominant Uighur faith, has been discouraged as a “sign of extremism.”

Beijing frames these moves as its way of rooting out terrorism, separatism, and religious extremism. But the aim of China’s actions in Xinjiang is clear: to homogenize Uighurs into the country’s Han Chinese majority, even if that means erasing their cultural and religious identity for good. What is taking place is a cultural genocide.

The repercussions bear heavily even on Uighurs living outside the country. Their burden is more than just raising awareness about what is taking place in their homeland—a task many have taken up at great cost to themselves and their families. It’s also about preserving and promoting their identity in countries where few people might know who the Uighurs are, let alone what the world stands to lose should their language, food, art, and traditions be eradicated.

Read: The panopticon is already here

In an effort to understand what this kind of cultural preservation looks like in practice, I spoke with seven Uighurs residing in Britain, France, Turkey, and the United States. As chefs, poets, singers, filmmakers, language teachers, and musicians, each of them is contributing to this work in different ways. All of them are passionate about ensuring that their heritage will be passed on to future generations. None of them is under any illusions about what’s at stake if they fail.

“Every Uighur now is under very big psychological pressure,” Omer Kanat, the director of the Uyghur Human Rights Project, a Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit, told me. “We cannot sleep at night.”

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Members of the Uighur community and sympathizers demonstrate against China’s treatment of the ethnic minority in Paris in August. (Adnan Farzat / NurPhoto / Getty)
By april 2017, few people outside of Central Asia might have known much about the Uighurs. Though the ethnic group totals more than 11 million people in Xinjiang, about 1 million live outside China, mostly in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkey, with much smaller numbers in the United States and Europe. Reports of their persecution by the Chinese state wouldn’t reach wider international audiences until later that year.

It was against this backdrop that Mukaddes Yadikar, a Uighur woman from Ili in the northwest of Xinjiang, near China’s border with Kazakhstan, decided to open Etles, one of London’s first Uighur restaurants. Nestled on a busy North London high street brimming with corner stores, betting shops, and cafés, Etles’s bright-blue exterior stands in marked contrast to much of its surroundings—a differentiation befitting its distinctive offerings. Owing to the Uighur homeland’s place along the ancient Silk Road trade route, Uighur cuisine takes its influences from across Central Asia, incorporating dishes as seemingly disparate as hand-pulled noodles and crispy naan. Even diners accustomed to the culinary diversity of the British capital might not expect to find dumplings, samosas, and shish kebabs on a single menu. At Etles, however, these dishes are only a representative sample of what makes Uighur cooking unique.

“Our food is very rich, very different,” Yadikar told me one Sunday afternoon over tea. Its absence from Britain’s food scene is what she said first inspired her to open the restaurant with her husband, Ablikim Rahman. At the time of its opening, Etles catered to a predominantly Chinese clientele—a trend Yadikar chalked up to Britons’ lack of familiarity with Uighur cuisine. In the years since, that has changed. “Now most of our customers are English,” Yadikar said, adding that their menu has appealed to many within the British Muslim community, for whom halal Chinese food can often be difficult to find. Today, the couple runs two North London restaurants (the second opened in December, just months before the pandemic forced both locations to close).

Etles feels like a living homage to Uighur culture. Etles silks, the traditional Uighur cloth from which the restaurant gets its name, are laid across every table. A tapestry of the artist Ghazi Ehmet’s Uyghur Muqam, one of the most recognizable paintings in Xinjiang, is prominently featured at the center of the dining room. Every wall is adorned with models of traditional instruments, embroidered caps, and decorative plates.

When I asked Yadikar and Rahman about the role they see themselves playing in protecting Uighur culture, they paused for several seconds. It’s not a question many people are asked to consider. The silence was filled by their three young children who, sitting one table over, were clamoring over schoolwork. In a way, they answered the question for their parents.

“We’re just [trying to] pass our culture, identity, and religion to the next generation,” Rahman said, nodding to the kids. Though the children speak Uighur fluently at home, only two of them have been to Xinjiang, and are too young to remember it.

So Yadikar and Rahman keep the spirit of their homeland alive at Etles. “From the restaurant, we can introduce our people, our culture, and our traditions,” Yadikar said. “We can’t go [to Ili]; we can’t see our people. They can’t leave. So we have to introduce our people then; we have to protect.”

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The dining room at Etles in Walthamstow, North London (Yasmeen Serhan)
Few understand the exhausting task of piecing a culture back together like Devin Naar. For nearly two decades, the historian and Sephardic-studies professor at the University of Washington has sought to understand and recuperate the lost world of Sephardic Jewry, an effort that began when he was in college. His interest in the topic stems from his own family history, “a puzzle” he says spans from the Greek port city of Salonica (now known as Thessaloniki), where one of the world’s largest Sephardic Jewish communities once lived, to the substantial Sephardic population in Seattle, where he currently resides.

Toward the end of the 15th century, the Iberian Peninsula was home to one of the largest Jewish communities in the world. That is, until 1492, when Spain issued its Jewish population an ultimatum: to convert, leave, or be killed. As many as hundreds of thousands of expelled Sephardic Jews (deriving from the Hebrew word for Spain, Sepharad) sought exile in places such as Portugal (which not long after delivered a similarly stark demand), Italy, and the Netherlands. Others, like Naar’s ancestors, made their way to the Ottoman empire.

Read: Spain’s attempt to atone for a 500-year-old sin

“They didn’t speak either Greek or Turkish at home, but they spoke a language that they called Spanish,” Naar told me of his ancestors in Salonica. In fact, like other Sephardim, they spoke a centuries-old variant of Spanish known as Ladino, which uses Hebrew script. Growing up in the U.S., Naar said he found very little information about Sephardic history and culture, and some books offered barely more than footnotes about the Jews of the late Ottoman empire—an erasure he attributed in part to assimilation and the Holocaust, during which tens of thousands of Sephardic Jews from Salonica perished. “We were just invisible,” Naar said. “We literally did not exist in the narrative.”

Naar wasn’t completely without resources, though. One of his great uncles had a stack of letters dating as far back as 1935, all written in Ladino, a language Naar would ultimately learn in order to decode them. The correspondence revealed painful parts of his family history, including details about the family members who sought, and failed, to secure visas to the U.S. at the height of World War II, and those who were put on trains to Auschwitz. “When I began to open up that story … I was like, I have to do something,” he said. “I have to enter more deeply into this world.”

His quest took him as far afield as Salonica, Jerusalem, Moscow, and New York City, culminating in a book about the history of Salonica’s Sephardic Jews. But the effort to revive Sephardic culture is far from complete. Today, there are thought to be anywhere from 60,000 to 400,000 Ladino speakers worldwide. Few have spoken the language from birth, and it’s safely assumed that none of them speak it exclusively. Their dwindling numbers mean that few, if any, new works are being published in Ladino. Even the world’s last Ladino-language newspaper, El Amaneser, or “The Dawn,” is written using Latin script. Though there have been some recent efforts to preserve the language, including Spain’s 2018 decision to recognize Ladino as a Spanish language and to establish a new Ladino academy in Israel, it is still widely considered to be at risk of extinction.

For Sephardic Jews, the loss of their language means more than just the disappearance of their ancestors’ native tongue. It means being unable to access a wealth of Ladino literature, hundreds of thousands of pages of which Naar has worked with the University of Washington to digitize as part of the world’s first virtual Ladino library. It also means missing out on troves of stories, perspectives, and ways of thinking. “Without the language as an organizing feature,” Naar said, “there is really a lot that is lost.”

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A magazine written by and for Uighur children in the diaspora. Its editor, Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan, said the publication is aimed at helping children learn the Uighur language. (Courtesy of Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan)
The situation facing Sephardic Jews is undoubtedly different from that facing the Uighurs today. Whereas the Sephardim confronted expulsion more than 500 years ago, the suppression of the Uighurs is happening in real time. Although the former had to maintain their traditions within their families, in many cases secretly, the latter have been able to utilize modern tools such as the internet to keep their culture alive. Still, some lessons can be gleaned from their shared challenges.

The first has to do with the issue of homeland, and how a community can go about preserving a culture outside of one. For Sephardim, this issue is ever-present. Since their expulsion from the Iberian Peninsula, they have carried with them a distinctive diasporic identity. And despite Spain’s and Portugal’s offers to extend citizenship to Sephardic Jews who were forced out of both countries hundreds of years earlier, this hasn’t really changed. “There is no country in the world that speaks on behalf of Sephardic Jews as Sephardic Jews,” Naar said. “Spain speaks on behalf of them as part of the Spanish empire … Israel speaks on behalf of Jews because of their Jewishness. But there is no Sephardistan. That does not exist.”

Uighurs, by contrast, do have a homeland, albeit a rarely autonomous one. (Though there was a short-lived Republic of East Turkestan, as some Uighurs prefer to call Xinjiang, the region has been under Chinese control since 1949.) But their suppression by the Chinese state has put the future of Uighur culture in their native land in doubt, prompting many Uighurs with means to leave. Such was the case for Rahima Mahmut, a London-based Uighur singer and activist from the northern town of Ghulja. Born to a family of musicians, Mahmut began singing from a very young age. “According to my mother, I could sing when I started speaking,” she told me over the phone, laughing. Her four brothers provided the music, playing the drums, the violin, and traditional Uighur instruments such as the dutar and the tämbur. “Naturally, it became a part of me.”

Mahmut’s decision to leave Ghulja came decades before Beijing’s internment of Uighurs. During a visit home to see her family in 1997, Mahmut witnessed a violent crackdown on peaceful protesters calling for an end to religious and ethnic discrimination. Dozens were killed and thousands were arrested. Among those detained, Mahmut said, was her brother-in-law, who received a 12-year prison sentence. “I could see that the situation was getting really, really bad,” she said.

Three years later, she traveled to Britain for a master’s degree and eventually moved to London, where she met other Uighurs and musicians with whom she would form the London Uyghur Ensemble, which has toured Britain, Europe, the U.S., and Canada.

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Mahmut performing with the London Uyghur Ensemble. (Courtesy of Rahima Mahmut)
When I asked Mahmut whether she felt she could more freely enjoy her culture outside the Uighur homeland, she said she could never be truly free while speaking out against abuses by the Chinese government: Of her immediate family, she is the only one who managed to leave Xinjiang, along with her then-husband and son. The last time she spoke with her remaining family was in 2017. She has avoided contacting them for fears of compromising their safety.

Read: Uighurs can’t escape Chinese repression, even in Europe

Hundreds of prominent Uighur cultural figures including singers, musicians, novelists, scholars, and academics have been detained, imprisoned, or have disappeared since 2017, according to the Uyghur Human Rights Project. Tahir Hamut Izgil, a Uighur poet and film director based in Washington, D.C., told me via an interpreter that this suppression of the Uighur cultural sphere dates back to at least 2012, when the Chinese government began a “reexamination” of Uighur-language publications, films, and music, many of which were blacklisted. “Uighur music and dance troupes were obligated to perform entirely in Chinese … on topics like opposing separatism, loving the motherland, loving the party, unity of the peoples,” Izgil said.

His work often touches on themes such as homeland, religion, and exile—topics that would be almost impossible to write about in Xinjiang today. Not until 2017, just before Izgil planned to leave for the U.S., did he decide to formally publish a collection of his poems. “I knew that if I left for America, I might never return to my homeland,” he said. “I wanted to ensure that at least one volume of my work was distributed among my people so that they would have it.” In the end, he said, he was able to distribute 1,000 copies; 2,000 more were confiscated.

Izgil nevertheless continues to publish his poems in Uighur online. As a father of three, he said he sees it as his responsibility to ensure that his children are able to speak Uighur. Others have taken a more formal approach to preserving it. The Turkic language, like other minority languages, is banned from being taught in schools in China, though this hasn’t stopped Uighurs in the diaspora from setting up their own language schools abroad, including in France, the U.S., and Turkey. “Language is the key to preserve the nation,” Muyesser Abdul’ehed Hendan, a Uighur-language teacher based in Istanbul, told me in an email. She runs an informal language school for children ages 5 to 12, and though the pandemic forced her to pivot to online-only instruction, she said it also enabled her to reach more pupils. To date, Hendan said that she, alongside Uighur teachers as far afield as Norway, Sweden, Australia, and France, is teaching nearly 150 students worldwide. “If a language and culture are inherited by an enough number of children,” Hendan said, “it won’t be in danger.”

Language alone may not guarantee the culture’s continued survival, though. “If [future generations] are unable to visit their homeland, if they are unable to see their native soil, if they are unable to experience the culture in that place, it will be much more difficult for them,” Izgil said. “If in the next several generations Uighur culture is destroyed in its homeland, it will be very difficult for Uighurs in the diaspora to preserve it. Even in the diaspora, it may cease to exist.”

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Izgil in September 2012 with his film crew and local Mongolian folk artists in Xinjiang. (Courtesy of Tahir Izgil)
Safeguarding a culture requires more than simply maintaining a historical record of its existence. Cultures, after all, can’t be placed behind glass like museum artifacts; much like the people who inhabit them, cultures are meant to grow, adapt, and evolve. The Ladino language offers a prime example of this: The medieval variant of Spanish is not identical to the modern Ladino used today. As the language traveled, it “absorbed like a sponge the linguistic and cultural elements of its surrounding environment in the Ottoman empire,” Naar said, noting that the language has since incorporated elements of Arabic, Greek, Italian, French, and English.

For Mukaddas Mijit, a filmmaker, ethnomusicologist, and expert on Uighur dance and music from Ürümqi, the capital of Xinjiang, the tension between preserving elements of culture as they are and allowing them to grow and evolve is at the heart of the challenge facing Uighurs in the diaspora. When she first left Xinjiang in 2003 to study at Paris Nanterre University, “no one really knew where I was from or who I was, who were the Uighurs,” she told me. Culture, she thought, could play a role in raising awareness, so she began organizing Uighur cultural events known as meshrep. This social, and traditionally male, gathering brings people together to enjoy a meal, poetry, music, and dance. A traditional meshrep has a structured hierarchy, including a master of ceremony, and serves as a forum for the community to mediate conflicts and impart important customs and traditions. (Though meshrep is included on UNESCO’s list of “intangible cultural heritage,” Chinese authorities have banned “illicit” or “unhealthy” versions of the practice.)

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Yet not everyone in the Uighur diaspora has been supportive of Mijit’s efforts, she told me. Some criticized the events for not being entirely authentic, while others questioned why the community should be focused on culture at all, as though to say, How can we focus on frivolous matters while our people are being repressed? This concern has been raised beyond France. “Many [Uighurs] have been very reluctant to hold public events or celebratory events—the kind of spaces in which this culture continues to live and breathe—because it feels so wrong to them when their relatives and friends are suffering back home,” Elise Anderson, an expert on the Uighur language and Uighur music and a senior program officer at the Uyghur Human Rights Project, told me. “A lot of people feel this sort of strange, sometimes contradictory set of feelings about wanting to celebrate, but wondering, Is it appropriate?

An argument could be made that these things shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. Although raising awareness about what is happening to Uighurs in China is important, their persecution doesn’t alone tell the full story of who the Uighurs are, nor why people should care. By representing their culture beyond the prism of its repression, Uighurs in the diaspora are giving the world a better understanding of not only who they are, but what it stands to lose should the culture be allowed to disappear.

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Mijit performing a traditional Uighur dance in Fez, Morocco. (Courtesy of Mukaddas Mijit)
For them to be successful, though, Mijit argues that the diaspora must be willing to move beyond simply aiming to be authentic. “The whole point of having a different culture is to communicate it with others and share it,” she said. “People are so stressed about preserving that they forget that this thing that they want to preserve is something alive. If we really want to keep it in a box, that means we will kill it ourselves.”

This admission points to a broader truth about cultural preservation: Even when cultures aren’t facing active persecution, as is the case for the Uighurs, they are still prone to transform as a result of more natural causes, such as migration, assimilation, or integration. Joshua Freeman, a historian of China and Inner Asia at Princeton and a translator of Uighur poetry into English who spent seven years living in Ürümqi, told me that he observed this kind of cultural hybridity occur in real time. “There were many Uighurs, especially in the younger generation, who spoke perfect Chinese and were in many ways able to navigate those societies in both languages,” he said, noting that “if the Chinese state’s project was to integrate Uighurs as a community into China, there were many Uighurs in the younger generation who could have played a part in that and were beginning to.”

By giving up on that possibility and opting instead for assimilation by force, China has threatened Uighur culture and identity. But it has also, paradoxically, spurred its greatest growth outside the Uighur homeland. Today, Uighurs in the diaspora are slowly rebuilding some of what has been lost in Xinjiang: Uighur restaurants, bookstores, and language schools are being opened. Uighur poems, books, and magazines are being published. Traditional Uighur music and dance are being introduced to the wider world.

“This relatively small number of writers and poets and artists and filmmakers and musicians in the diaspora … are creating an incredible amount of new and important work,” said Freeman. Thanks to them, Uighur culture isn’t just surviving abroad—it’s flourishing.

None of this is to say that Uighur culture is no longer under threat. If Uighurs are unable to study their native language, practice their faith, or freely celebrate their identity in their homeland, their culture will continue to be hollowed out—perhaps beyond repair. Still, many of the people I spoke with expressed optimism that, so long as the diaspora continues to promote and develop its culture, not all will be lost.

“The Chinese state’s project of erasing Uighur identity and culture will not be successful,” Freeman said. “Even in the diaspora, Uighur culture is vibrant. It has a lot to give to the world.”


Yasmeen Serhan is a London-based staff writer at The Atlantic.
 
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i already highlighted that there are over 100 red indian government organisations in Canada, and that red indians these days make up about 5% of the canadian population.





There are no red Indians, they are natives of America. When you defended the genocide committed by whites in the Americas, have you ever wondered why India resisted colonialism back then?

Xinjiang is open to foreigners. Even during the epidemic, there are foreigners traveling in Xinjiang. There are also many domestic and foreign video bloggers including Uyghurs. It is impossible for you to use fake news to put the crime of genocide on China.

Have you ever thought that one day there will be a genocide against you by the white? I hope you are mentally prepared.
 
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i already highlighted that there are over 100 red indian government organisations in Canada, and that red indians these days make up about 5% of the canadian population.




No, they force them speak English , practice western culture.

Those red Indian are losing their traditional culture. The Canada government purposely omit red Indian native tongue and didn't put in any effort to save their language. Where is the road sign with red Indian native language and where is the dedicated red Indian language channel? The real culture genocide is Canada.

All Uyghur speaks their native tongue and they are free to watch uighur channel and practice their traditional unlike the poor red Indian who is cultural genocide by white Canadian.

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Yuan dollar with Chinese and minority language printed on...

China is a great country , doing all great to protect all minority unlike imperialism Canada
 
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There are no red Indians, they are natives of America. When you defended the genocide committed by whites in the Americas, have you ever wondered why India resisted colonialism back then?

Xinjiang is open to foreigners. Even during the epidemic, there are foreigners traveling in Xinjiang. There are also many domestic and foreign video bloggers including Uyghurs. It is impossible for you to use fake news to put the crime of genocide on China.

Have you ever thought that one day there will be a genocide against you by the white? I hope you are mentally prepared.

No, they force them speak English , practice western culture.

Those red Indian are losing their traditional culture. The Canada government purposely omit red Indian native tongue and didn't put in any effort to save their language. Where is the road sign with red Indian native language and where is the dedicated red Indian language channel? The real culture genocide is Canada.

All Uyghur speaks their native tongue and they are free to watch uighur channel and practice their traditional unlike the poor red Indian who is cultural genocide by white Canadian.

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Yuan dollar with Chinese and minority language printed on...

China is a great country , doing all great to protect all minority unlike imperialism Canada
there you go *again*, and *again*, and *again*.
all of you Chinese-govt fans.

you flat-out deny, calling serious accusations false without ever providing conclusive evidence of your ongoing innocence.

instead, you point the finger very hatefully back at the west, with often nothing but baseless accusations or severe corruption of the real truths or lacking context for events created by the west in the (distant) past.

i'm gonna take a break from being active on this forum.
even if it means this'll probably turn into a petri dish of hatred towards the west.
 
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