המציאות הקשה של חיי האויגורים בסין - ריאיון מיוחד

Uyghurs, an ethnic minority in China, are being mass surveilled, forcibly sterilized and exploited as slave labor in China's Xinjiang region. There are growing signs of large-scale forced organ harvesting in the region. Jania Kellick with American Thought Leaders sat down with Hrushan Abbas to discuss the harrowing realities of Uyghur life in China. Abbas is the executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs and chairperson of the World Uyghur Congress' Executive Committee. Here's more. When this mass detention started, we started to hear that crematoria are being built next to the concentration camps, as well as the airports in the major Uyghur cities like Kashgar. There's a fast lane, special lane dedicated for people who are transporting human organs. Hrushan Abbas is the founder and executive director of the Campaign for Uyghurs and chairperson of the World Uyghur Congress' Executive Committee. She's the author of the powerful memoir, Unbroken, One Uyghur's Fight for Freedom. They went after my sister. The government detained my sister to silence me, to punish me. The people living within China's borders, your thoughts are being owned, your speech, your expression, even your movement, you are being monitored 24-7. Tyranny survives because of the silence. Silence is the oxygen of tyranny. Let's talk about that. We hear this term transnational repression. It's almost a government term. What does that actually mean? What does it mean for you exactly? How does that connect with your sister? Transnational repression means a government targets other countries' citizens because of our connection in back home. For example, in my case, September 2018, almost seven years ago, after the mass detention of the Uyghurs in East Turkestan, I spoke at the Hudson Institute about this mass detention while I was outlining the fate of my in-laws. 24 members of my husband's family went missing. When I talked about that, they went after my sister. The government detained my sister to silence me. Basically, me living in the United States since 1989, being a U.S. citizen since 1995, it did not matter. Because of my family tie, they took my sister to punish me. So, this is actually a part of China's transnational repression. It should be recognized as international crime because the Chinese government is not only targeting people like the Uyghurs and the Falun Gong practitioners, or Tibetans, or Hong Kongers, but they're coming after all these people living in the Western free world. There are 102 Chinese police stations all over the world in the United States. So, the Chinese government uses those police stations to monitor and manipulate and make threats to the citizens of the Uyghurs and Hong Kongers, Tibetans, or Falun Gong practitioners.