{"id":609,"date":"2022-03-19T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T11:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=609"},"modified":"2022-04-03T22:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T19:17:18","slug":"china-uyghur-conflict-comes-to-cornell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uyghurmovement.com\/?p=609","title":{"rendered":"China-Uyghur Conflict Comes to Cornell"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Cornell event with a member of Congress prompted a walkout by Chinese students during a discussion about Uyghurs. A Uyghur student says it was an effort to intimidate her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Protesters in Washington, D.C., on March 4 called for divestment from Uyghur forced labor. A similar effort is playing out at some U.S. colleges.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Rizwangul NurMuhammad, a Uyghur student at Cornell University, has been vocal for years about the Chinese government\u2019s detention of her brother and the atrocities Beijing has committed against the ethnic minority in China. So when her Chinese classmates jeered and walked out of a campus event last week after she asked a U.S. congresswoman about the Uyghur genocide, NurMuhammad saw it as the long arm of Chinese government influence at play.<\/p>\n

The incident occurred at a March\u00a010 colloquium for the Cornell Institute of Public Affairs, where NurMuhammad is earning a master\u2019s degree in public administration. At the event, NurMuhammad shared details of her brother\u2019s story: he was detained in 2017, later declared a separatist and hasn\u2019t been heard from since. NurMuhammad later asked the speaker\u2014Elissa Slotkin, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan and a Cornell graduate\u2014about the lack of sanctions by the U.S. government as China continues its campaign of human rights violations against Uyghurs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a strong understanding in Congress that there is something terrible going on with the Uyghurs in China: the forced labor, the human rights violations, the forced indoctrination,\u201d Slotkin responded, joining the event via Zoom. \u201cDemocrats and Republicans actually agree that there are real problems going on.\u201d<\/p>\n

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