About this episode
Salih Hudayar discusses the ongoing genocide of Uyghurs in East Turkistan and the international response to it.
Salih Hudayar is the Foreign Minister and former Prime Minister of the East Turkistan Government in Exile. He was born in East Turkistan, fled to the United States as a political refugee at age 7, and has spent his life working to bring international attention to what the US government and over a dozen Western parliaments have formally recognized as a genocide. We covered: how China invaded and occupied East Turkistan in 1949 with Stalin's help; the 1996 secret document that became the blueprint for genocidal policy; how China created a fake jihadist organization to justify its crackdown; how China and Turkey funneled 20,000 Uyghurs into Syria to manufacture a "terrorism" narrative; Xi Jinping's "show no mercy" speech and the bombing that followed two hours after his plane left; the 2.2 million Chinese officials sent to live inside Uyghur homes; the forced removal of over a million children into military boarding schools; 16,000 mosques destroyed; Muslim names, Ramadan fasting, and the Arabic greeting "Assalamu Alaikum" all banned; and the ongoing organ harvesting program in which an estimated 25,000 to 50,000 young Uyghurs are killed annually for their organs. The genocide is…
People in this episode
Guest: Salih Hudayar
Topics covered
- China
- genocide
- Uyghurs
- political refugee
- East Turkistan
- human rights
- international relations
Keywords
- genocide
- Uyghurs
- East Turkistan
- China
- political refugee
- human rights
- organ harvesting
- concentration camps
- Salih Hudayar
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: East Turkistan Government in Exile
Books & works: The Xinjiang Procedure
Places: East Turkistan, China, Turkey
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