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Uyghur Canadian society participated
Religion and rights in China Symposium
2009-06-04
May 30, 2009, religion and rights symposium held
in Knox College in Toronto, Canada. This symposium
brought together scholars, believers and rights
advocates, examined issues of control and
persecution as well as the role of religions as
civil society organizations building human rights
in China. At first panel, Dr. Pitman Potter, a
professor of Law at UBC Law Faculty and HongKong
Bank Chair in Asian research at UBC’s institute of
Asian research gave keynote speech about Human
rights and religion in China. Joseph Tse-Lee,
professor of history and co-director of East Asian
studies at Place University in New York speak
about patterns of Chirstian activisim in modern
China. Second panel speakers international human
rights lawyer David Matas, Dr.Michael Dillon from
global journalism Institute of Tsinghua University
and Rukiye Turdush , the president of Uyghur
Canadian Society gave interesting and informed
speech about Falun dafa, Islam and Uyghurs.
Specially, the Uyghur issue cause high interest of
Symposium participants and brought good comments
and questions.
Rukiye Turdush speak about religous dominance of
CCP and explained the behind the scene of brutal
religious oppression in East Trukistan and argued
that eroding identity of Uyghurs is not the only
goal or at least not the immediate main interest
of harsh religious policy of China. She pointed
that China’s main and immediate target of
repressive religious policy is to eliminate the
political freedom of Uyghurs. Unlike Hui Muslims
in China Uyghur issue is not only the ethnic
identity issue between two nations, it is a
political issue, historical issue, land issue and
issue of race. She also discussed the several
aspects of the impact of religious oppression that
both devastated Uyghur population and threatened
the Chinese government. At the end she answered
the questions of Symposium participants.
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