Uyghurs who are being persecuted as an ethnic and religious group by the Chinese government, face a common challenge of figuring out how best to talk with young people about the 21st-century atrocities occurring in China's northwestern Xinjiang region.
Uyghurs who are being persecuted as an ethnic and religious group by the Chinese government, face a common challenge of figuring out how best to talk with young people about the 21st-century atrocities occurring in China's northwestern Xinjiang region. Children of the Uyghur diaspora often ask their parents about the genocide in China's Xinjiang. They ask why they cannot see their grandparents and why they cannot visit their homeland.
Als ihre Eltern ihr von der Repressionswelle erzählten, sagte das 12-jährige uigurische Mädchen, das jetzt im US-Bundesstaat Virginia lebt: „Ich war sehr traurig“, berichtete Radio Free Asia. Zu der Zeit, als ihre Schulkameraden darüber sprachen, woher sie ursprünglich stammten, sei der Schmerz besonders groß gewesen, sagte das Mädchen unter der Bedingung der Anonymität. Ihre Stimme wird schwächer und bricht ab, wenn sie nach ihrer Heimatstadt gefragt wird.
"It does affect my voice," the girl told RFA. "Sometimes if people ask me where I'm from, it's going to be sometimes difficult because they don't know much about us [Uyghurs], and because they think that China is like a perfect place. They don't know about the government and everything." "They're going to think you're crazy, she added. read more