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Washington, New York Protesters Call for Recognition of Uighur Abuses as
Genocide

Asim Kashgarian

   Dozens of people in Washington and New York City took to the streets
   Friday afternoon, calling on the U.S. government, the United Nations
   and countries around the world to do more than condemn the violence
   against Uighurs, and recognize China's policies in the northwest region
   of Xinjiang as a genocide.

   The demonstrations came as the ethno-religious minority members mark
   four years since China stepped up its campaign in Xinjiang, and amid
   reports that the U.S. government is weighing labeling Beijing's actions
   as genocide.

   "Tomorrow, August 29, marks the fourth anniversary of Chen Quanguo's
   transfer from Tibet to East Turkistan, [the] so-called Xinjiang Uighur
   Autonomous Region's Chinese Communist Party (CCP) chief who was the
   mastermind behind the building of concentration camps, prisons, Uighur
   forced labor and high-tech surveillance, the police state as we know it
   today," Salih Hudayar, the founder of the Washington-based Uighur
   organization East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, told VOA.

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