China Seeks to Divert Attention From Virus Mishandling With Dancing Xinjiang Minorities: Uyghur Exiles

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/dancing-02142020171104.html?fbclid=IwAR370gnbWA6pRdsKvNClzWn9J6zi-UTypuweQCsQRKip2fel9FyPpp3xThk Deploying ethnic minority medical staff from China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) to dance for patients infected with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) is a tactic by the government to divert public attention from its mishandling of the outbreak, members …

Coronavirus: China’s Xi Jinping faces his biggest challenge

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/coronavirus-china-s-xi-jinping-faces-his-biggest-challenge-n1136851?fbclid=IwAR26CaXS9lDYpFU0WwhOphNuEhbPg5BQTnoF7MIS9EmCB5u5aVSdd0dDpm8 Feb. 15, 2020, 6:42 PM JSTBy Alexander Smith The coronavirus outbreak has killed almost 1,400 people in China, spread to over two dozen countries and created a global health crisis. It is also the biggest challenge yet facing President Xi Jinping since …

Uyghurs and the China Coronavirus

https://thediplomat.com/2020/02/uyghurs-and-the-china-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR0WNfD_jfdzWcRYKgkx54u5bnFx-3BDgUuyjoUE3GCScR9U1GaosSA7Q4c By Munawwar AbdullaFebruary 05, 2020 The World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a global public health emergency on January 30. The Chinese government initially heavily obscured the severity of outbreak in the early days, leading to inadequate initial handling and the spread of …

Perhat Tursun is the preeminent modernist Uyghur author, a self-proclaimed Kafka character whose novels are among the most influential in Uyghur society.

https://supchina.com/2020/02/05/disappearance-of-perhat-tursun-uyghur-worlds-greatest-author/?fbclid=IwAR0GYvpiIOYH327gNZuQN9F-92gzCrgw_4vUA4wsYZBhGo8S03RzPtGKECk Perhat Tursun is a slight man with a receding hairline. To look at him, you wouldn’t know that he is one of the most influential contemporary Uyghur authors in the world. When I met him for the first time …

Atush Roads Fenced Off, Residents Confined to Homes, as Xinjiang Stares Down Virus Advance

https://www.rfa.org/english/news/uyghur/atush-02042020161321.html?fbclid=IwAR1mr9issraXvkJ8orOlP7zhXccNF0QoAsR3xPH62D2EODL3-38O8KvU1_Q Authorities in Atush (in Chinese, Atushi), in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), have fenced off the city’s roads, leaving residents confined to their homes and running out of supplies, as they work to control the rapid spread …

The Ghulja Massacre: remembering China’s brutal crackdown on a peaceful Xinjiang protest

https://www.hongkongfp.com/2020/02/07/ghulja-massacre-remembering-chinas-brutal-crackdown-peaceful-xinjiang-protest/?fbclid=IwAR3eFoApj9HjymcNrl86rDnQW1rQaRCB5C_UHvP3NASKVWAFxB90sHdUV9k 7 February 2020 19:12 Guest Contributor6 min read By Zubayra Shamseden, Chinese Outreach Coordinator, Uyghur Human Rights Project It was horrifying to hear that my sister Mesture, who was in severe pain going into labour with her first child Nazife, …

WHY ARBITRARY, SECRETIVE DETENTION OF OVER A MILLION CHINESE MUSLIMS IS LIKELY TO WORSEN CORONAVIRUS SCARE | OPINION

https://www.newsweek.com/xinjiang-wuhan-uyghur-coronavirus-detention-camps-1486278?fbclid=IwAR2mcf8SI4Xjvn86DjXVq3jbeR86DQnOwqvxOijYteRsnyECuI7FxL7phm0 SOPHIE RICHARDSONON 2/7/20 AT 11:16 AM EST eople inside and outside China have already offered up scathing criticism of Chinese health authorities for their slow and secretive response to the coronavirus, which the World Health Organization has now identified as a global health emergency. …

China’s Concentration Camp Capital Quarantines at Least 99 over Coronavirus

https://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2020/02/07/chinas-concentration-camp-capital-quarantines-least-99-coronavirus/?fbclid=IwAR16T4B95ldRYl97CQzNagju9MoGQC-q-BF8q6SQjVr93zfXjfB3TTKY2fU Chinese officials in Xinjiang province, home of the oppressed Uyghur Muslims, said on Thursday that at least 99 residents of Wuhan are under quarantine in the city of Atush. Wuhan is the center of the coronavirus outbreak, while Xinjiang …

The Kazakhs Left Behind In Xinjiang

https://www.rferl.org/a/kazakhs-china-muslims-xinjiang/30389193.html?fbclid=IwAR3hcKeUrAvrjRdo6Ot9S61FhOceu9m5v3uUfXFFmJnE6TKIsMhtcbzkylc ALMATY, Kazakhstan — When word came from the capital, Nur-Sultan, that no Kazakhs were being held in “reeducation” centers in northwest China’s Xinjiang region, many who didn’t believe that claim sought help tracking down their loved ones. They found …