Comments Off on Uyghur activist says: ‘We can call this a genocide’
Channel 4 News:
We spoke to Aziz Isa Elkun, a London-based Uyghur academic and activist.
We started by asking for his reaction to the Chinese Ambassador, who said there was no Uyghur repression in China.
Uyghur academic Aziz Isa Elkun responds to new evidence of detention centres in China after the Chinese Ambassador to Ireland claimed the buildings are “Vocational Training Centres”.
Source:
https://www.channel4.com/news/uyghur-activist-says-we-can-call-this-a-genocide
Comments Off on China’s vanishing Uighur graveyards Catherine Philp Saturday July 25 2020, 12.01am, The Times
As contact with his family in China dwindled and ethnic Uighurs fleeing Xinjiang brought disturbing stories, Aziz Isa Elkun, a poet, academic and activist who lives in London, began speaking out about their plight.
Using Google Earth, he tracked down the site where his father was buried in 2017; the cemetery had been demolished, seemingly part of a pattern of erasing Uighur culture. CNN ran a story about the apparent destruction of more than 100 Uighur graveyards, featuring Mr Elkun and his story.
Days later CGTN, the international arm of the Chinese state broadcaster, interviewed Mr Elkun’s frail mother. She led a crew through a new “eco-friendly” cemetery. “We voluntarily applied to move the old grave here,” she said.
Continue reading: The Times
Comments Off on Uighurs in China: ‘I didn’t even know if my mum was alive’ BBC London 18 Feb 2020
Aziz Isa Elkun is one of many Uighur Muslims living in London who have been cut off from contacting their families based in Xinjiang.
Since 2016, China has detained more than one million Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang in what they call “educational centres”.
However, documents seen by the BBC show that these camps use violence and torture to drive Uighurs away from their Islamic beliefs.
Aziz has several family members in the camps. He wants to be a voice for the Uighur community in the UK and is now calling on the UK Foreign Office to help them find out if their families are alive.
Reporter and producer: Gem O’Reilly; Filmed and edited by Cristian Mantio
Source: BBC London
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-london-51532812/uighurs-in-china-i-didn-t-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive
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www.azizisa.org/en/uighurs-in-china-i-didnt-even-know-if-my-mum-was-alive