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Quotes About Uighur

The East Turkestan Islamic Movement, named for an old Uighur name for Xinjiang, is a shadowy group that operates largely out of Afghanistan and Pakistan and is devoted to expelling the Chinese Communist Party from northwestern China.
~ Barbara Demick
The respect for the rights of minorities that China's Tibetan and Uighur activists champion would prevent instability that could spill across China's borders.
~ Tom Malinowski
The details of the CCP's anti-Uighur campaign are heartbreaking, but they reflect the Marxist-Leninist disdain for individual human beings. Whenever Chinese people dare defy the party by asserting their individual humanity, they stop being useful to the state and become a problem to solve the only way the CCP knows how: suppression and coercion.
~ Robert C. O'Brien