What is happening to Uyghurs in China?
What is happening to Uyghurs in China?
Human rights groups believe China has detained more than one million Uyghurs against their will over the past few years in a large network of what the state calls “re-education camps”, and sentenced hundreds of thousands to prison terms. There is also evidence that Uyghurs are being used as forced labour and of women being forcibly sterilised.
What is Turkification in Turkey?
Turkification, Turkization, or Turkicization ( Turkish: Türkleştirme ), describes both a cultural and language shift whereby populations or states adopted a historical Turkic culture, such as in the Ottoman Empire, and the Turkish nationalist policies of the Republic of Turkey toward ethnic minorities in Turkey.
Who are China’s Uighurs?
Who are the Uighurs? There are about 12 million Uighurs, mostly Muslim, living in north-western China in the region of Xinjiang, officially known as the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). The Uighurs speak their own language, similar to Turkish, and see themselves as culturally and ethnically close to Central Asian nations.
What caused the Uighur riots?
Almost 200 people died in ethnic riots in Urumqi, the administrative capital of Xinjiang, in July 2009. One of the sparks for the violence seems to have been the deaths of two Uighurs in clashes with Han Chinese at a factory thousands of miles away in southern China.
Is Egypt helping China with its Uighur crackdown?
Egypt, a BRI partner country, has even appeared to help China with its Uighur crackdown. Last summer, Egypt detained dozens of Uighur students in the country without giving a reason, denied them access to lawyers and their families, Human Rights Watch reported.
Why are Uighurs being detained in China?
Uighurs may be held there for crimes such as having a beard, having a Muslim name, having WhatsApp on their phone, having family members who live abroad, or for no apparent reason at all. But it was only two weeks ago that a statement was issued by 22 countries condemning China’s treatment of Uighur and other minorities.