“To Make Us Slowly Disappear” The Chinese Government’s Assault on the Uyghurs

Watch our virtual conversation with experts to learn more about the Chinese government’s persecution of the Uyghur people—a Muslim community in the Xinjiang region of northwest China. They discuss the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s latest report on the situation.

The panel also addresses the current threats faced by Uyghurs in Xinjiang and what can be done to halt these mass atrocity crimes.

The targeting of Uyghurs is alarming in scale and severity. It is marked by the mass detention of between one and three million people as well as abuses such as forced sterilization, torture, sexual violence, and forced labor. These and other crimes against humanity are being committed with impunity. The Museum also has grave concerns that the Chinese government may be committing genocide against the Uyghurs.

Captions for this video are available in English, Uyghur, and Chinese.
بۇ ۋىدېئونىڭ ئىزاھاتى ئۇيغۇرچە يېزىلىشى مۇمكىن.
该视频附有中文字幕。

Speakers:
Sara J. Bloomfield, Director, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Rachel (Rae) Goldfarb, Holocaust Survivor and Museum volunteer
Senator Marco Rubio, Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; Former Chair, Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Congressman Jim McGovern, Chairman, Congressional-Executive Commission on China; Co-Chair, Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission
Dolkun Isa, President, World Uyghur Congress

Panelists:
Gulchehra Hoja, Uyghur Journalist, Radio Free Asia
Sareta Ashraph, Senior Legal Consultant, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Evan Osnos, Staff Writer, the New Yorker
Naomi Kikoler (moderator), Director, Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

[Dawnsdelightsart]

Thank you for speaking on this. Sadly not only this but an open slave camp is operating in Syria. We can examine the past, but have to do something about today's horrors.

[scienceandmatter]

This Must BE SHOWED Here in Germany SHOOLS !!!! WE all Must Stand Up, speak and ACT for freedom and Justice and Not violence and evil and greed....

[georgebrown]

If the story about China's mistreatment of the Uighurs is true, then China should be held accountable for crimes against humanity, just as the Nazis were in postwar Germany. China could surely learn some lessons from the Nuremberg war crimes trials of Nazi war criminals.

[ivanrobles]

Where's this public information they talk about? Are they referring to the ASPI reports?

[chan-dciy]

Surely the Chinese government has to be held accountable if this is true. But anyone who accuses any other one of committing racial assimilation of such scale should provide solid proofs before pointing their accusing finger. 1 - 3 million Uyghurs have been detained in Xingjiang? That’s about 1 person in every 2 - 3 Uyghur families! How could the arrest and detention of such large scales be technically possible? How do you explain the rapid population growth of Xngjing Uyghurs in recent years if there is really a genocide on Uyghurs there? Without investigating into these with proofs, it is simply a rhetoric.

[tzufbb]

she forgot to mention the language policy change against the Mongolian people in Inner Mongolia

[luzalgarin]

You will truly value this promise recorded in Psalm 37:9-11:

"For evil men will be done away with, but those hoping in Jehovah will possess the earth. Just a little while longer, and the wicked will be no more; you will look at where they were, and they will not be there. But the meek will possess the earth, and they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace."

For how long?

The answer in recorded in verse 29:

"The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it."

Would you not like to live for ever on Earth, made a paradise, with no evil doer hurting our neighbors?

[brandonhinojosa]

Just compare Gaza to the situation the Uyghurs are in, they are being repressed, brutally, but are the Uyghurs having their power plants destroyed? Their sewage plants destroyed, & are subjected to regular bombing? Are 500, 000 Uyghur children dying of thrist because of lack of drinking water, due to stolen resources? To claim that there is total genocide going on is a disgrace to actual genocides that take place. The U.S could pressure the Chinese & take a diplomatic approach for the sake of the Uyghur people, but they would first need to stop funding Israel's ACTUAL genocidal war to even have to moral qualifications to speak about helping people in need. Please stop focusing on our deathlords intention of destroying any nation that has become independent from U.S world run economy, , & liberated 800 million people from poverty. Where is the video worrying about the Palestinians, or the Kurdish people? Simply a disgrace.

[soodankush]

Wrong. Chinese had birth control policy on Han Chinese, the major ethnic group in China. But they didn't have such policy for minorities like Uyghurs. The question is whether Uyghur population increased or decreased in the past decades. People, please do more research on Google, compare information from difference source, before you trust anything a youtuber said and start hating someone.