Uyghur minority group: December 2006 Archives

By Li Jia | The Epoch Times Toronto / Canada
December 17, 2006

At the 2006 International Human Rights day, Toronto's Amnesty International democratic organizations and individuals who have been persecuted by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) protested in front of the local Chinese consulate. The groups included Canadian Uyghur, the Tibet association, Falun Gong practitioners, Formosan Association for Public Affairs who gathered together to protest against the communist regime's persecution of them. Rebiya Kadeer a former member of the Chinese communist Political Consultative Conference (PCC), once ranked the fifth richest in mainland China, and an Uyghur's human rights leader, came especially to Canada to expose to the world how the CCP deceives the Uyghur people.

Note, Xinjiang is the autonomous region for minority races including Uyghur

Promise of Autonomy was a Lie

Rebiya Kadeer said, the CCP guaranteed the autonomy of Xinjiang Uyghur in 1955. But now, the CCP transfers Uyghur youths aged 17 to 27 to China's inland schools, to stop them from staying in the local Uyghur regions to be educated. "We have many resources to educate our youth and instead the CCP forces them to other places. Most Uygur college graduates are unable to find a job, but the Han race people from other place have jobs."

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