Why isn’t the world doing more to help the Uighurs?
The Inquiry
BBC
4.6 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2020
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
With an estimated million Uighurs in detention camps, China has used a variety of means to successfully stifle world criticism. They include its economic muscle, political alliances with like-minded countries and sanitized tours of the facilities for opinion formers.
With Charmaine Cozier.
(Uighur prisoners shackled and blindfolded in Xinjiang, China. Still from anonymous drone footage.)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the ground. |
| 0:26.3 | Their eyes are covered with black blindfolds, hands tied behind their backs as they |
| 0:31.1 | wait to be forced onto trains. Many of them have their heads shaved, they're |
| 0:36.3 | surrounded by police. |
| 0:38.0 | The video first appeared on YouTube last year and was shot in Xinjiang which is home to |
| 0:47.3 | millions of Uyghur Muslims. |
| 0:50.6 | China continues to deny religious persecution of the Uyghur population, |
| 0:55.0 | despite numerous reports of human rights violations like mass detention camps and forced sterilizations. |
| 1:01.0 | So this week we're asking, why isn't the world doing more to help the Uyghurs? |
| 1:07.0 | Part 1. Now nowhere to hide. |
| 1:14.0 | The school that I studied, |
| 1:18.0 | the school that I studied from year 6 up to university. |
| 1:25.0 | That school turned into prison camp. |
| 1:29.0 | When I learned this two years ago, I pride. I am Rahima Mahmoud. I'm the UK Project |
| 1:38.7 | Director for the World War Congress. Rahima grew up in Xinjiang. |
| 1:43.7 | She also works as an interpreter for news organizations including the BBC. |
| 1:48.4 | We should also mention that Uriga and Weiga are both recognized pronunciations. Our experts will use both. |
| 1:55.0 | I am Uyghur myself. Ojkurs are mainly from the place I would call East Turkistan. |
| 2:04.0 | The Chinese call it Xinjiang. |
| 2:07.2 | We speak the Turkic language. |
| 2:10.0 | Our language is very close to Uzbek language. We are all Sunni Muslims and culturally |
| 2:17.4 | we are far more closer to Istanbul than Beijing. |
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