(Prose) When can we escape from the bonds of the past? When can memories stop boiling over? When can we stop carrying thousands of stories of suffering 24 hours in our minds and bodies, and rejoice in our own and others’ happy lives? Forgetting the past means forgetting oneself, in
Life is snow. Uyghurian On a winter morning in Takoma, I wake up to fresh snow, The silence of the sky calmed the noise of my nightmare. “Snow has merit,” I said to myself. I touched the snowflakes, and they melted. I lost the only good sign of the
Read the full article “Tahir Imin, a Uyghur activist in Washington, said that because of the months of delays and pressure from Beijing, he was surprised that Ms. Bachelet had come through with releasing the report before she left office, and that its findings were forceful. “I wasn’t expecting
Read the full article Freedom, who is Muslim but knew little about the Uyghurs, threw himself into the cause. Tahir Imin, a Uyghur activist in Washington who met Freedom at a Capitol Hill rally, said that Freedom “boosted the morale of Uyghur activism.”
Read the Full article ” Tahir Imin knew that romances sometimes end. So he did not expect the long arm of global authoritarianism when the woman he had been planning to marry broke things off in March. Perhaps he should have. He had fled China’s oppression of Uyghurs, a predominantly
Read the full article “There are many people who suspect the legitimacy of this decision,” Tahir Imin, a Uighur activist based in Washington, said after the United States declared that China’s repression of his ethnic group amounted to genocide. “But all of the facts show clearly that what is happening is
Read the full article “This film was undertaken with the assistance of the Chinese police while at the same time these police were committing crimes against the Uighur people in Turpan,” said Tahir Imin, a Uighur activist based in Washington. “Every big company in America needs to think about whether
Read the full article; “Tahir Imin, a Uighur activist in the United States, said that Mr. Trump had put his presidency and re-election hopes above human rights issues. Still, he said that it was possible that Mr. Trump’s views had evolved and that Mr. Trump’s signing of the legislation outweighed
Read the article; Tahir Imin, a Uighur activist based in Washington, said, “Uighurs abroad continue to be unable to reach their relatives in the region. No phone calls, no internet communications.” Xinjiang is home to more than 11 million Uighurs, more than the Pentagon’s estimate, and their treatment under President
NYT(2022):Xi’s speech draws praise from an unexpected corner of the internet.NYT(2022):Xi’s speech draws praise from an unexpected corner of the internet.
” A Uyghur activist in the United States criticized the party congress, saying Uyghur delegates cannot claim to be credible representatives. “From our 70 years of experience under the Chinese government, we know that when Chinese government gives a stage for Uyghurs, it is using them as its propagandist against