Dragon Fighter

Aug 24, 2009

World Uyghur Congress

Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer talked about her book Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China (Kales Press; May 19, 2009). Her book tells her life story as a refugee child, as a poor housewife, as a multimillionaire, as a high official in China's National People's Congress, as a political prisoner in solitary confinement .. Read More
Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer talked about her book Dragon Fighter: One Woman's Epic Struggle for Peace with China (Kales Press; May 19, 2009). Her book tells her life story as a refugee child, as a poor housewife, as a multimillionaire, as a high official in China's National People's Congress, as a political prisoner in solitary confinement for two of nearly six years in jail, and as a political dissident living in exile in Washington, D.C. Ms. Kadeer's remarks were translated into English. She opened the program with comments on disturbing news from China. Her daughter Kekenos read a passage of the book in English. Then Ms. Kadeer responded to questions from members of the audience. Topics included the human rights challenges faced by Uyghurs in China, current unrest in the Xinjiang region, and the reception of her autobiography. This event was held by the World Uyghur Congress/American Uyghur Congress in Washington, D.C. Rebiya Kadeer is president of the World Uyghur Congress and the Uyghur American Association.

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TIME SPEAKER TEXT
00:00:29 Unidentified Speaker ARE WE READY? OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON, AND WELCOME. THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY TO DISCUSS DRAGON FIGHTER...
00:01:13 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ..
00:02:15 Unidentified Speaker 200 QUOTE-UNQUOTE CRIMINALS WOULD BE SENTENCED TODAY AND THEY WILL BE IN COURT.
00:02:33 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE WERE ALREADY SENTENCED BY THE ONGOING EVENTS WHICH IS THE CHINESE CRACKDOWN ON PEACEFUL...
00:02:55 Unidentified Speaker WE HEARD ON AUGUST 9 AND 10 MANY WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH WE HEARD THEY WERE EXECUTED BUT WE COULD...
00:03:22 Unidentified Speaker Translator: TODAY WE HEAR 200 WILL BE SENTENCED, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS BEHIND THIS ARE WHAT IS GOING...
00:03:46 Unidentified Speaker Translator: MY PEOPLE FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS HAVE THAN SUFFERING AND THEY HAVE BEEN VICTIMS OF REPRESSION...
00:04:11 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK IS TO LET THE WORLD KNOW ABOUT OUR PEOPLE SUFFERING THROUGH MY...
00:04:43 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IF MY STORY OF A SIMPLE FAMILY IS THIS SADDENING AS IT IS IN MY BOOK, YOU CAN SEE HOW...
00:05:03 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IN THIS ALSO REFLECTS ON THE SUFFERINGS OF THE OPPRESSED PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. [SPEAKING...
00:05:30 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THROUGH THIS BOOK I HOPE THAT MORE PEOPLE WILL KNOW PEOPLE THROUGH MY STORY ABOUT MY ...
00:05:52 Unidentified Speaker Translator: O.R. LIKE TO MENTION SOMETHING THAT REALLY AFFECTED ME AS A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY. I SAW...
00:06:27 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WHEN I WAS A CHILD I COULD NOT ENJOY MY CHILDHOOD. I COULD NOT ATTEND THE SCHOOLS I WOULD...
00:06:44 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BUT I WAS YOUNG. I COULD NOT ENJOY MY YOUTH I COULD NOT ENJOY WHAT A YOUNG PERSON SHOULD...
00:07:02 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN I COULD NOT GIVE MOTHERHOOD TO MY CHILDREN AND COULD NOT BE THE MOTHER...
00:07:20 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS JUST 30 PERCENT OF MY LIFE ACTUALLY. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE]
00:07:30 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIS BOOK WAS TRANSLATED INTO SEVEN LANGUAGES TO 12. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE LANGUAGE] BUT...
00:08:18 Unidentified Speaker WITHIN A FEW HOURS THE COURT WOULD SENTENCE ME TO DEATH THE EXECUTION WAS TO TAKE PLACE IMMEDIATELY...
00:14:42 Unidentified Speaker OF THIS WAS TRUE YOU SHOULD DEFEND HERSELF.
00:14:46 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE LED A JUST LIFE NEGATIVE ANGELES SUPPORTED THE POOR AS WELL AS THE ORPHANED AND HAVE IMPORTED...
00:17:08 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE ARE OPEN TO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
00:17:15 Unidentified Speaker THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY BOOK AND IT DESERVES TO BE INSEMINATED VERY, VERY WISELY AROUND THE WORLD...
00:18:22 Unidentified Speaker Translator: ABOUT THE FIRST PART WHEN I WAS THERE LAST TIME WE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GO THROUGH...
00:18:58 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BIEL'S TRILLION PEOPLE GREETED ME AND MY PEOPLE EXTRAORDINARILY. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE...
00:19:17 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I WAS VERY PLEASED THE 86 PEOPLE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE UYGHUR PEOPLE...
00:19:35 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I DID NOT EXPECT THE PRESS CONFERENC
00:19:52 Unidentified Speaker Translator: DESPITE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT STRONG PRESSURE ON THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB NOT TO HOLD...
00:20:17 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY SENT SEE THE CASSETTES TO EACH JOURNALIST TO PRESSURE...
00:20:41 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WITH THE CDS IRONY MENTIONED DESCRIBE ME AS A SEPARATIST AND A...
00:21:16 Unidentified Speaker Translator: DESPITE THE PRESSURE THE AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT AND PEOPLE GREETED ME SO...
00:21:49 Unidentified Speaker THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT WILL TRY MORE THAN 200. [INAUDIBLE] DO ANYTHING TO SAY TO THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT...
00:22:24 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND THROUGH PRIVATE CONVERSATIONS WE HAVE LEARNED SOME WERE EXECUTED ACTUALLY AUGUST 9...
00:22:38 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE LEARNED A THEY WERE SENTENCED TO DEATH AND EXECUTED BUT THEY DID NOT MAKE IT PUBLIC....
00:23:14 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE LEARNED OF THE CHINESE POLICE AND CIVILIAN QUOTE TEAMS IN THIS AREA AND ACTUALLY RESTING...
00:23:45 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE ARE HEARING EVERY DAY THERE IS A MASS ARREST OF OLDER PEOPLE 14 YEARS OLD AND UP WE...
00:24:11 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE ALSO LEARNED THIS PLACE WHERE THE WATER WELL IS, WE LEARNED DOZENS OF CORPSES WERE...
00:24:40 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS ANNOUNCING THEIR RED -- ARRESTED 600 PEOPLE THAN 300 MORE THAN...
00:25:07 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY OF THOSE UYGHUR AT ARRESTED AND TAKEN TO PRESENT THEY CANNOT...
00:25:32 Unidentified Speaker Translator: TODAY THEY ANNOUNCED 200 WOULD BE TRIED BUT I BELIEVE THIS IS ANOTHER SHAM TO D.C. THE...
00:25:51 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT ALREADY DECIDES WHO THEY WILL DEFEND THE UYGHUR. THESE...
00:26:18 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IF THESE LAWYERS DID NOT ACT IN THE WAY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT EXPECTS THEM TO THEIR ROLE...
00:26:53 Unidentified Speaker Translator: SINCE JULY FITS THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN ARRESTING AND KILLING UYGHUR EVERY SINGLE...
00:27:36 Unidentified Speaker Translator: UYGHUR PEOPLE HAVE A NUMBER OF FRIENDS ARE NOTHING THAT THEY COULD USE ANY TOOL OR ANYTHING...
00:28:09 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE LIKE YOU WHO BELIEVE IN DEMOCRACY AND LOVE DEMOCRACY CAN...
00:28:24 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I BELIEVE THE DEMOCRATIC SOCIETIES WOULD NOT JUST WATCH THIS HAPPEN. BECAUSE OUR IMPROVEMENT...
00:28:43 Unidentified Speaker Translator: MY PEOPLE ARE ALSO PEACEFUL BUT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS CARRYING OUT STATEWIDE TERRORISM...
00:29:10 Unidentified Speaker WE WERE TOLD YOUR CHILDREN WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN EVICTED FROM THEIR HOMES AND DO YOU HAVE ANY...
00:30:08 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IT IS TRUE MY CHILDREN ARE BEING EVICTED FROM THEIR HOMES. NOT JUST THAT. REBIYA KADEER...
00:31:36 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I FELT WHEN THEY MADE MY CHILDREN WHEN THEY PRESSURED MY CHILDREN TO TALK ON TV AGAINST...
00:31:55 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FIRST THEY PUT MY CHILDREN IN PRISONS. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:32:01 Unidentified Speaker Translator: SECOND, THEY DEMOLISH MY FINANCIAL STATUS, FINANCIAL WEALTH. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]...
00:32:11 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIRD, THEY PRESSURED MY CHILDREN IN TO TALKING AGAINST ME. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]...
00:32:29 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND NOW, THEY CONFISCATED MY CHILDREN'S, MY PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DICTUM MY CHILDREN OUT...
00:32:43 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WHEN I WAS 13I WAS KICKED OUT OF MY HOME LIKE THAT. [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:32:51 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I DON'T KNOW WHERE MY CHILDREN WILL GO. PEOPLE CANNOT HELP THEM, CANNOT GIVE THEM HOUSING...
00:33:02 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I DON'T KNOW WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THEM.
00:33:16 Unidentified Speaker IF I COULD ASK YOU TO GIVE A FEW MORE DETAILS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING EARLIER ABOUT THE EXECUTIONS AS YOU...
00:34:05 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:34:07 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIS NEWS CAME FROM SOME UYGHURS ABLE TO ESCAPE OUTSIDE OF THE COUNTRY AND CONTACTING...
00:34:48 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:34:50 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE FACTS TODAY WE RECEIVED FROM POLICE, ACTUALLY, WHO WAS ABLE TO ESCAPES INTO THE AREA...
00:35:34 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:35:42 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:35:43 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIS POLICE I WAS MENTIONING SAID THAT HUNDREDS, MORE THAN 100 UYGHURS WERE TORTURED --...
00:35:57 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:35:58 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IN THIS PRISON. THEY ARE GOING TO GET THE FACT TO GIVE YOU MORE DETAIL, SO THEY HAD SAID...
00:36:19 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:36:20 Unidentified Speaker Translator: EVERYDAY WE HEAR NEWS LIKE THIS.
00:36:26 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:36:27 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BUT WE COULDN'T MAKE THIS PUBLIC TO YOU BECAUSE FIRST CHINA CUT DOWN THE PHONE LINES.
00:36:37 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:36:39 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE INTERNET IS DOWN.
00:36:48 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:36:50 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND IT IS HARD FOR US TO MAKE THIS PERSONAL, LIKE FACTS BECAUSE CHINA CAN EASILY DISPUTE...
00:37:10 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:37:17 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IN THIS PRISON, 196 UYGHURS WERE KILLED, TORTURED AND KILLED ACCORDING TO THE FACTS.
00:37:25 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:37:26 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND I AM SURE AS SOON AS THIS IS MADE PUBLIC
00:37:33 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:37:35 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE CANNOT PROVE IT BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS DOWN AND IT IS REALLY HARD TO PROVE.
00:37:43 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:37:44 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THAT'S WHY EVEN THOUGH WE ARE GETTING NEWS EVERY DAY ABOUT NOON CURRENT UPDATES, WE ARE...
00:37:59 Unidentified Speaker IRIS FROM THE ASSOCIATION. SINCE THE VIOLENT CRACKDOWN, I IMAGINE YOU MUST HAVE BEEN IN TOUCH WITH...
00:38:43 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE] YOU'RE SECOND PART WAS?
00:38:45 Unidentified Speaker WHETHER THE CHINESE EMBASSY HAS PUT PRESSURE ON THE GOVERNMENT NOT TO DO ANYTHING.
00:38:58 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:39:00 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I BELIEVE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT MIGHT HAVE PUT PRESSURE ON THE U.S. GOVERNMENT PERHAPS...
00:39:14 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:39:16 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THAT IS WHY THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION SAID BOTH SIDES SHOULD SHOW RESTRAINT.
00:39:31 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE] THE
00:39:35 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I ALSO HEARD THAT THEY HAVE -- THE GOVERNMENT HAS PEOPLE ON THE GROUND, SO I BELIEVE THEY...
00:39:50 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:39:53 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I BELIEVE THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION WOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS ONCE THEY HAVE BETTER...
00:40:09 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:40:12 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AS FAR AS CONGRESS, CONGRESS MEMBERS SUCH AS CONGRESSMAN DELAHUNT, CONGRESS MANIPLES,...
00:40:49 Unidentified Speaker FOREIGN POLICY ASSOCIATION. I HAVE A QUESTION, SINCE CHINA CLAIMS MOST OF THE RIOTING LAST MONTH OCCURRED...
00:41:39 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:41:42 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:41:44 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IT IS TRUE AT FIRST THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DEPORTING UYGHURS BACK TO CHINA BUT RIGHT NOW...
00:41:58 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:41:59 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE GOVERNMENTS AND CENTRAL ASIA CANNOT DIRECTLY HELP US, BUT I BELIEVE THE PEOPLE ARE...
00:42:10 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:42:12 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE GOVERNMENT CANNOT HELP BECAUSE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PRESSURE. WAS THIS THE QUESTION?...
00:42:34 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
00:42:36 Unidentified Speaker I AM ANGRY WITH THE UYGHURS HUMAN RIGHTS PROJECT. HOW FAR DID THE FORCIBLE TRANSFER UYGHURS IN CHINA...
00:42:59 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:43:08 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:43:09 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FIRST OF ALL, THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS BROUGHT CHINESE MIGRANTS INTO EAST AND TURKISTAN,...
00:43:30 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THEREFORE, UYGHURS AND FARMERS ARE BEING LEFT TO BECOME EVEN POORER.
00:43:40 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:43:41 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THEREFORE, THEY HAVE BECOME POORER.
00:43:53 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:43:57 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND THEN THEY ARE IMPLEMENTING THIS POLICY OF FORCIBLY TRANSFERRING UYGHURS INTO EASTERN...
00:44:12 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:44:13 Unidentified Speaker Translator: SINCE 2006, THE HAVE FORCIBLY TRANSFERRED AROUND 300,000 UYGHURS WHEN AN.
00:44:32 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:44:35 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AS THEY HAVE DEPLETED UYGHURS CURLS THEY HAD TRANSFERRED 800 YOUNG UYGHURS INTO THE EASTERN...
00:44:52 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:44:53 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIS WAS -- THEY WERE TRANSFERRED WITH A GOVERNMENT POLICY.
00:45:06 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:45:09 Unidentified Speaker Translator: ALVES THESE UYGHURS ARE TRANSFERRED AND SETTLED INTO THIS TOY FACTORY, PEOPLE AS THE RECESSION...
00:45:25 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:45:26 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THERE ARE MORE THAN 10,000 PEOPLE WORKING IN THAT FACTORY.
00:45:30 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:45:32 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THEIR INCOME IS AROUND 3,000.
00:45:36 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:45:40 Unidentified Speaker Translator: UYGHURS WORK FOR 500 TO 1,000 A MONTH.
00:45:45 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:45:46 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE PEOPLE AND THE FACT WE DID NOT LIKE THE NEWCOMERS.
00:45:54 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:45:55 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THEY DID NOT LIKE THE FACT THAT IF THE CHEAP LABOR UYGHURS, AND THEY MIGHT LOSE THEIR...
00:46:11 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:46:14 Unidentified Speaker Translator: SO, IN THE MIDDLE OF TONIGHT AT 1:00 A.M. A AROUND 10,000 CHINESE HAVE -- CLOSE TO 1,000...
00:46:37 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:46:39 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE FACT THAT CAME IN TODAY MENTIONS 56 PEOPLE, BUT CLOSE TO SIX UYGHURS DIED -- 60, SORRY....
00:46:57 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:46:58 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BUT FOR UP TO FIVE HOURS, THE CHINESE POLICE DID NOT ARRIVE TO SAVE THE UYGHUR VICTIMS....
00:47:07 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:47:08 Unidentified Speaker Translator: MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE HAVE BEEN INJURED.
00:47:12 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:47:16 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND THE REST OF THE 600 JUST DISAPPEARED. WE DON'T KNOW.
00:47:21 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:47:24 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE PEOPLE BACK IN THE EAST TURKISTAN DID NOT KNOW WHERE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT MOVED...
00:47:39 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:47:40 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IN THIS INCIDENT, NOT ONE CHINESE FELT BAD ABOUT THE UYGHURS DYING. THEY DID NOT TRY TO...
00:47:58 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:47:59 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE DON'T KNOW WHETHER THIS WAS THE GOVERNMENT ACTUALLY DOING IT BEHIND, IT'S KIND OF LIKE...
00:48:20 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:48:23 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I BELIEVE THIS IS CAUSED BY THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA DESCRIBING US AS TERRORISTS...
00:48:37 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:48:39 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I BELIEVE THAT THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA HAS BRAINWASHED THE CHINESE CITIZENS....
00:48:49 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:48:50 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE THIS INCIDENT WAS MADE SO PUBLIC ON THE INTERNET ALL OF THE UYGHURS BACK HOME...
00:49:04 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:49:05 Unidentified Speaker Translator: UYGHUR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN SUFFERING THE PAST 60 YEARS HAVE -- THIS INCIDENT SPARKED...
00:49:22 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:49:24 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FOR THE LAST 60 YEARS, UYGHUR PEOPLE DON'T CARRY THE CHINESE FLAGS. THEY DON'T LIKE TO...
00:49:39 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:49:42 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BUT IN THIS DEMONSTRATION, OUR PEOPLE, UYGHUR DEMONSTRATORS WERE ACTUALLY CARRYING CHINESE...
00:49:52 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:49:53 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND THIS SHOWS HOW PEACEFULLY THEY WERE DEMONSTRATING, AND IT SHOWS THERE WERE ACTUALLY...
00:50:15 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:50:16 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BUT THEY CRACKED DOWN.
00:50:18 Unidentified Speaker YOU MENTIONED WHEN YOU WERE DOING THIS BUSINESS THE GOVERNMENT HAD A POLICY OF TARGETING UYGHURS,...
00:50:59 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:51:14 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:51:17 Unidentified Speaker Translator: YES, IT IS STILL THE CURRENT PRACTICE. ACTUALLY THE SITUATION NOW IS EVEN WORSE THAN IT...
00:51:32 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:51:55 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE THEY KNOW IF THEY STRIP UYGHURS OF THEIR WEALTH THAT THEY WOULD DEPRIVE THEM OF...
00:52:38 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:52:40 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IT IS STILL THE CURRENT PRACTICE WHETHER YOU ARE A POOR FARMER OR WEALTHY OR SMALL BUSINESSMAN...
00:53:08 Unidentified Speaker [INAUDIBLE] WHY DO YOU THINK CHINA APPLIES A POLICY TO THE PEOPLE WITH A POPULATION OF ALMOST 10 MILLION?...
00:53:43 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:53:48 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:53:51 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE REASON IS IT YOU COULD CALL IT GENOCIDE AND ASSIMILATION.
00:53:57 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:53:58 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THEY WANT TO WIPE OUT UYGHURS FROM THE FACE OF EARTH.
00:54:08 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FOR EXAMPLE, FORCIBLY TRANSFERRING UYGHUR WOMEN TO EASTERN PROVINCES WHO ARE AT THE MARRIAGEABLE...
00:54:21 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:54:22 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FORCIBLY ABORTING UYGHUR WOMEN AND PREVENTING THEM FROM GIVING BIRTH.
00:54:31 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:54:33 Unidentified Speaker Translator: STERILIZE UYGHUR MAN.
00:54:37 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:54:38 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THESE ARE THE KIND OF POLICIES THAT ARE DIRECTED AT THE UYGHURS POPULATION TO WIPE THEM...
00:54:44 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:54:45 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND THIS, I BELIEVE, IS A CULTURAL GENOCIDE.
00:54:56 Unidentified Speaker YES, I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION. SHE MENTIONED CULTURAL ISOLATION AND GENOCIDE. I'M SURE YOU KNOW THERE...
00:55:47 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:55:50 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:55:51 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FIRST, WE HAPPEN TO BE THE OWNERS OF THE LAND.
00:55:56 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:55:57 Unidentified Speaker Translator: SECOND OF ALL, WE DON'T LOOK ALIKE. WE DON'T LOOK LIKE HONG AND CHINESE. IT'S DIFFERENT....
00:56:07 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:56:10 Unidentified Speaker Translator: OUR CULTURAL IDENTITY, OUR NATIONAL IDENTITY IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THAT OF HONG...
00:56:17 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:56:19 Unidentified Speaker Translator: EVIN LIKE, HOW WERE PERSONALITY, CHARACTERIZE WE ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM THEM.
00:56:28 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:56:29 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT HAS SUCCESSFULLY ASSIMILATED MANY OF THOSE MINORITIES, BUT THEY...
00:56:40 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:56:41 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THOSE MINORITIES YOU MENTIONED, THEY ALL SPEAK HONG CHINESE.
00:56:48 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:56:49 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE SPEAK OF WERE OWNED NATIVE TOWN, UYGHURS.
00:56:51 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:56:53 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, WE'LL, GAS, GOLD, MINERALS.
00:57:02 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:57:05 Unidentified Speaker Translator: AND WE ARE NOT ONE OF THOSE, LIKE, 56 MINORITIES.
00:57:13 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:57:19 Unidentified Speaker Translator: WHETHER IT IS UYGHURS, OR MONGOLIANS, WE ARE PEOPLE WHO HAD THE COUNTRY -- WE HAD STAGED...
00:57:44 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:57:48 Unidentified Speaker Translator: PERHAPS THE REASON THEY COULD NOT BE SO AGGRESSIVE ON TIBETANS IS HIS HOLINESS, THE DALAI...
00:58:09 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:58:11 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THAT IS NOT TO SAY THAT TIBETANS ARE FREE. THEY ARE ALSO THE VICTIMS OF VERY AGGRESSIVE...
00:58:28 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:58:33 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THEREFORE CHINA -- CHINESE GOVERNMENT IS -- I FEEL LIKE THEY ARE GOING REALLY CRAZY. LIKE,...
00:58:57 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:58:58 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I BELIEVE THE POLICY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT IS CARRYING OUT ON UYGHURS RIGHT NOW -- I THINK...
00:59:15 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
00:59:19 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THOSE 200 HONG CHINESE WHO TOOK TO THE STREETS THE SECOND DAY AFTER...
00:59:42 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. HOW DEVASTATING IS THE DEMOLITION OF THE CITY TO THE CULTURAL SURVIVAL OF...
01:00:03 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
01:00:12 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
01:00:14 Unidentified Speaker Translator: FIRST ONE TO MENTION THAT THE WAY THAT THEY ARE ATTACKING OUR IDENTITY AS, ATTACKING US...
01:00:44 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
01:00:50 Unidentified Speaker Translator: TRASH -- KASHKAR WE HAVE A CIVILIZATION AND CULTURAL HISTORY.
01:00:58 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
01:01:00 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIS HAS BEEN ANCIENT CAPITAL OF UYGHUR STATES.
01:01:05 Unidentified Speaker [SPEAKING IN NATIVE TONGUE]
01:01:14 Unidentified Speaker Translator: CHINA WITH NO EMBARRASSMENT IS THE TARGETING THIS CITY AND PLANNING TO DEMOLISH THIS KASHKAR...
01:02:26 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT IMPLEMENTING A POLICY OVER EDUCATION. WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS POLICY...
01:02:55 Unidentified Speaker Translator: A NATION IS A NATION WITH ITS OWN LANGUAGE BROKE BACK IN ORDER TO ERADICATED PEOPLE THEY...
01:03:29 Unidentified Speaker Translator: EVEN THOUGH IT IS THE EPONYMOUS REGION IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUR AUTONOMOUS REGION. [SPEAKING...
01:03:40 Unidentified Speaker Translator: IN THE CHINESE LAW ITSELF IS SAYS WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO USE OUR OWN NATIVE TONGUE. UNDER...
01:04:14 Unidentified Speaker Translator: THIS BILINGUAL EDUCATION POLICY IS A VERY FAST PACED ASSIMILATION POLICY ACTUALLY THEY...
01:05:16 Unidentified Speaker I AM FROM THE HUMAN-RIGHTS PROJECT CRACKDOWN IN YOUR BOOK MS. KADEER YOU TALK ABOUT HOW IN THE LATE...
01:06:45 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I WOULD TELL THEM TO COME TO THE NEGOTIATING TABLE AND COME COOPERATE WITH US AND LISTEN...
01:07:15 Unidentified Speaker Translator: I WOULD TELL THEM AND THE UYGHUR PROBLEM WOULD BE SOLVED WHEN YOU COME TO THE SAME TABLE...
01:08:00 Unidentified Speaker Translator: BECAUSE I BELIEVE THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT COMES TO THE AGREEMENT TO COME TO THE TABLE...
01:08:57 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU VERY MUCH LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. ONE MORE QUICK QUESTION.
01:09:27 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE UNTIL 7:00. [INAUDIBLE CONVERSATIONS]

NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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