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China’s ‘Ethnic Unity’ Law is Already Harming Uyghurs

Government actions that could once be described as regional campaigns are now embedded in national legislation. Restrictions will become easier to...

06.08.2026 4

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Omer Kanat

Trump Must Put Detained Uyghur Intellectuals on the Agenda for Xi Summit

If Trump sits across from Xi and fails to raise the cases of Uyghur Americans and their families, Beijing will read that omission not as pragmatism,...

11.05.2026 10

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Omer Kanat

China’s Genocide and the Eliticide of Uyghur Scholars

To ignore the intellectuals languishing in Chinese prisons is to normalize an ongoing cultural genocide in the Uyghur homeland.

19.08.2025 30

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Omer Kanat

Silencing RFA Uyghur Echoes Past Mistakes

Forty-five years ago, the U.S. silenced Uyghur voices in the name of diplomacy. Today, they are being silenced in the name of austerity. 

08.07.2025 20

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Omer Kanat

The Battle to Save the Uyghur Language From Extinction: China’s Plan to Erase a Civilization

Uyghur Language Day matters, not just as celebration, but as defiance of the attempt to extinguish our civilization. 

12.06.2025 20

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Omer Kanat