Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Initially the contradiction was the Chinese state and the Uighur people. Now because it is just a conflict of interest between the newcomers and the Uighurs and others, now that everything is at stake, people don't like each other that much.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  As I indicated in my brief statement, thousands of people disappear each year in China. We can only assume where these people end up and that for most of them, their organs are exported or imported. There are illegal gangs in China that sell these organs. They have a very close r

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  There are around 2,000. Since 20 years ago, probably, including this decade, there are 2,000 Uighurs living in various parts of Canada.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We missed some of those points because of the time limit. It is very difficult to find safe shelter around the world, except in the western countries. Most of the Uighur refugees are sent back to China by the trade dealers and some others. They are extradited to China and persec

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The Chinese government is going to use this opportunity to intensify its crackdown on Uighurs. Many Uighurs did not realize this was a terrorist act, by the way. It is the policy of the Chinese government that created this kind of environment in China without addressing the root

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Just recently, one of my sons was released because his term was more than over. My other son was transferred to a notorious prison in Urumqi. Just recently, my son who is in the Chinese prison was released from intensive care at a hospital because he had been beaten so severely

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  The first and most important thing is that they transferred a large number of Chinese immigrants to the area. They take over the jobs, and they take the lands and the farmland, everything, from the Uighurs, so there could be some social unrest. In order to prevent that social unr

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  It has a negative effect because of the investment made by Canadian companies. There is no change in daily life, but its effect has been negative because that investment brought more Chinese settlers to the region. It could be beneficial for Canadian companies to raise the issue

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  According to the Chinese national territorial autonomous law, the local population who exercise an autonomous region shouldn't be lower than other migrant populations, but in fact now, because of the mass population transfer in recent years, or since 1949, the Uighurs have become

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Especially since 9/11, the Chinese government is linking its crackdown on Uighurs to a crackdown on international terrorism. Usually Uighurs are not that kind of radical person. We don't like that. We are [Inaudible—Editor] or this kind of thing. The Chinese government, to talk

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you so much, Mr. Chair, for organizing such a hearing today. Six years ago I was sitting in this chair attending the first testimony held at the human rights subcommittee of the Canadian Parliament. At that time I raised the issue of hu