For nearly 10 years, Chinese authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have increased repression of the Uyghurs, many of whom are wondering why so many liberal figures in business, professional sports leagues and the mainstream media have been muted in the face of this persecution.
Rushan Abbas wants to know if her imprisoned sister is still alive. Kuzzat Altay fears for his father’s safety. And Nury Turkel seethes over the U.S. companies he says are effectively funding China’s repression of its Uyghur Muslim minority. These expatriates spoke recently about the effects of Beijing’s yearslong campaign to erase a people’s identity in the restive western Xinjiang region.
“We have been [speaking] about the early warning signs at the beginning of this genocide in 2014 when the first concentration camps [began construction]. And right after Xi Jinping came into power, he started a ‘strike hard’ policy against the Uyghurs,” Ms. Abbas, executive director of Campaign for Uyghurs, a District-based advocacy group, said in an interview.
For Ms. Abbas, the effort to call attention to the Uyghurs’ plight is personal: Her 60-year-old sister, Gulshan, a retired physician, was imprisoned by Chinese authorities. Mr. Altay, who lives in Fairfax County, Virginia, escaped from Xinjiang in 2005 and came to the U.S. as a refugee three years later following a stint in Turkey.
The coding entrepreneur says American consumers “should boycott [products] made in China. They should force these companies to move out of China.” “I don’t think you’ll see concentration camps,” Mr. Curry told The Washington Times. “I think you’ll see Christians potentially forced to stay in their own homes, are kept on a no-fly list, kept out of work,” he said.Nury Turkel, a Uyghur-American who has become an attorney and now chairs the USCIRF panel, said China’s religious policies have has managed to skate past the kind of widespread international condemnation Russia received following its 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
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