Over 500 people attended the protest on Sunday the 17th of August against the Chinese governments continued crackdown on the Uyghur population of East Turkistan. The protesters began in Victoria square and marched along King William Street with police escorts and gathered in Parliament House where speeches were given by ETAA community leaders as well…
Sunday August 17th, 2014 Congregation Victoria Square, King William Street, Adelaide SA @11:30am March along King William St to Parliament House. Assembly at Parliament House @12.00 noon [gview file=”http://www.etaa.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Save-the-Uighurs-of-East-Turkistan-Protest-Flyer-Latest.pdf” height=”900px” save=”1″] Turkistan is one of the many countries facing injustice and absolute cruelty under the Chinese government. Our brothers and sisters in humanity there…
Emergency meeting regarding Yarkand Massacre ETAA office 9th August 2014 All members of the East Turkistan community were invited to discuss the recent events in East Turkistan in particularly the massacre of thousands of innocent civilians in the town of Yarkand. Nurmuhammad Turkistani presented the current situation in the south of East Turkistan. It is…
Kilic Kanat Assistant Professor, Penn State University, Erie A series of violent incidents in China involving Uyghurs has focused increasing attention on the Turkic Muslim minority group and on the religious and political situation in their homeland, China’s vast northwestern province known as the Xinjiang (East Turkistan) Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR (East Turkistan) or East…
Due to the increasing religious persecution and inhumane treatment by the Chinese authorities, Uyghur Muslims have been forced to flee to seek shelter away from systematic institutionalised oppression and subjugation. Unfortunately, on many occasions due to Chinese Government influence these Uyghurs have been deported back to China leaving them in a torturous fate in China.…
A new report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project details the Chinese government’s severe restrictions placed on Uyghur Internet users. Trapped in a Virtual Cage: Chinese State Repression of Uyghurs Online documents how Chinese authorities have exerted effective control over how Uyghurs seek, receive and impart information online in East Turkestan by employing technical and legislative…
By Ilham Tohti, published: April 6, 2014 On January 15, 2014, Chinese authorities arrested Ilham Tohti, a Uyghur economics professor at the prestigious Minzu University in Beijing. Authorities formally charged him with separatism on February 25, and have so far denied him access to his attorney. For years, Tohti has discussed and commented on not only…
By Wang Lixiong, published March 3, 2014 (On the evening of March 1, 2014, several knife-wielding men and at least one woman killed 33 and injured more than 140 in the train station in the southwestern city of Kunming. The Chinese authorities blame Uyghur separatists for the terrorist attack. — Editor) People asked how…
Christian Tyler, author of ‘Wild West China: The Taming of Xinjiang (East Turkistan)’ disusses the recent history of Xinjiang (East Turkistan) (East Turkistan) and the changing relations between Uyghurs and Han Chinese (August 2008).
Professor James Millward, Georgetown University discusses Uyghur and Han relations in Xinjiang (East Turkistan) since the foundation of the People’s Republic of China (September 2008)
