- Title: Uighur leader calls on G7 to discuss their plight
- Date: 25th May 2016
- Summary: TOKYO, JAPAN (MAY 25, 2016) (REUTERS) ****WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** PRESIDENT OF WORLD UIGHUR CONGRESS, REBIYA KADEER, HOLDING PRESS CONFERENCE SIGN READING (Japanese and English): "FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE'S CLUB OF JAPAN" REPORTERS LISTENING (SOUNDBITE) (Uighur) PRESIDENT OF WORLD UIGHUR CONGRESS, REBIYA KADEER, SAYING (ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL TRANSLATION): "Main topic of G7 is about terrorism and refugee problems. The world must take responsibility on Uighur refugees so in the G7 summit they must talk about Uighur refugees, I hope." REPORTER TAKING NOTE (SOUNDBITE) (Uighur) PRESIDENT OF WORLD UIGHUR CONGRESS, REBIYA KADEER, SAYING (ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL TRANSLATION): "The Chinese government and Han Chinese also destroyed a peaceful Uighur society, for the peaceful of the life, the killing the Uighurs, the arrest of the Uighurs, the repression of the religious activities. They killed many farmers for their religious activities." REPORTER ASKING QUESTION PRESS CONFERENCE FINISHING
- Embargoed: 9th June 2016 11:33
- Keywords: Rebiya Kadeer G7 Uighur
- Location: TOKYO, JAPAN
- City: TOKYO, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Topics: Government/Politics
- Reuters ID: LVA0014JB1YKN
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- Story Text: The president of the World Uighur Congress Rebiya Kadeer called on the Group of Seven Industrialised nations (G7) holding a leaders summit in Japan, to discuss the plight of Uighurs at their meetings later this week.
"Main topic of G7 is about terrorism and refugee problems. The world must take a responsibility on Uighur refugees so in G7 summit they must talk about Uighur refugees I hope," Kadeer told reporters through a translator at a news conference in Tokyo on Wednesday (May 25).
She asked that the G7 also discuss China's violation of human rights amongst the Uighur population.
"The Chinese government and Han Chinese also destroyed a peaceful Uighur society, for the peaceful of the life, the killing the Uighurs, the arrest of the Uighurs, the repression of the religious activities. They killed many farmers for their religious activities," Kadeer said as she delved into how the situation has gotten worse since the Cultural Revolution.
Rebiya Kadeer, a once successful businesswoman in China and now a leader of the exiled Uighur group living in the U.S. after a six-year imprisonment, is the most prominent activist advocating against China's unfair policies toward the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region and its people.
The World Uighur Congress has recently called for help from the international community to improve the refugee status of Uighur asylum seekers who've fled China.
The vast territory of Xinjiang borders Russia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India is the largest administrative region in China with abundant natural gas and oil production. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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