I know that you dedicated your book to your parents and your brother, whoas you mentioned, your mother and your brother are still in china. Are you able to contact them to day? What hope you have of being able to reach them and even seeing them one day? In a situation like the one that i have been living through, as my fellow weeper friends sarround the world, we have to be refused to be dishumanized. It has effected everybody's life yesterday's landmark enactment, enforcement of the wegal force labor act. I'm not going to suggest that i want the regime to o should continue to make the mistakes. But i think their mistakes, whether being
In recent years China has been accused of committing crimes against humanity and possibly genocide against the Uyghur ethnic group in the northwestern region of Xinjiang province. Nury Turkel was born in a re-education camp in Kashgar, Xinjiang in 1970. In 1995 he had the opportunity to leave China as a student and was never to return to his home and family. Nury has since dedicated his life to fighting for the rights of Uyghurs – he is Chair of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute, specialising in national security and foreign policy. His new book is No Escape: The True Story of China's Genocide of the Uyghurs. Turkel is joined in conversation by our host for this discussion, Yasmeen Serhan, staff writer at The Atlantic, where she focuses on populism and nationalism.
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