Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Chair and honourable members, for the invitation. During my parliamentary testimony on October 2, 2018, I stated that the textbook example of ethnic cleansing, collective punishment and dehumanization of Uighur people had become routine and I raised fear and alarm abo

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  My own voice is coming back.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Okay. They're sterilizing 80% of Uighur women, holding 80% of Uighur males in concentration camps, prisons, or in slavery in mainland Chinese factories, and separating Uighur children from their families. Uighurs will be erased within a span of only one generation. Arkin Kurba

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Huseyin Celil's case is troubling, because when you look at the statements from the government officials, and when we talk about the two Michaels, despite Huseyin Celil's case being exactly the same.... If you look at the charges laid by the Chinese government, it is about state

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. It is an excellent question. I partly disagree with the previous panellist's conclusion. If you look at the reality now, Chinese money is coming from western markets, not only from selling their product, but at the same time from our stock markets and our investments.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  This case has been reported to our government since early 2000. Just imagine. I left my home country in 1991. Since then, I have not had a chance to visit my mother and my siblings or any of my relatives. I was totally blocked, and my relatives, including my mother, were totally

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you, Anita. Is this a question for me?

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Canada should, as earlier speakers have mentioned, just look at the overall China policy. Canada should have some mechanism to protect dissidents like me and others because we are speaking up about the atrocities committed by one of the strongest authoritarian regimes. It is not

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  That is 2,380 families, the families in dire need. Yes, there are maybe 30,000 or 40,000. There is no clear statistic on this; I don't know the exact number. In November 2017, our organization sent two Canadians to Turkey just to interview and talk with people about their problem

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  One thing I have to emphasize here is that the last visit I made to Ottawa was my 117th visit in 20 years. I have spoken with government officials at Global Affairs and all high-level officials. On January 17, for example, I gave to the sanctions division of Global Affairs the li

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  Thank you. There are frequent media reports on the atrocities against Uighurs. I think the majority of Canadians already know what is going on there. Probably it is part of the genetic code of all Canadians: We are not that politically active. Because there are so many atrocitie

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I totally agree. There's no adjective needed to describe it. There's no “cultural” or “demographic”; it is genocide, period.

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  I personally prefer to follow the procedure and the law. It is quite clear. I raised the issue of Uighurs because it is a very special situation. Uighur refugees are making claims here, and they are leaving their relatives or spouses and children behind in some insecure countr

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  We have documentation of 125,000 pages of personal information during the interviews and surveys we did two years ago. I dispatched them to community members in Turkey. There are heartbreaking stories. We heard their testimonies, how many members of their families were lost, disa

Subcommittee on International Human Rights committee  In my opening, I just gave as examples three Canadians. I talked about the family members of three Canadians. None of them, none of their family members, have been released from the concentration camps. Arkin Kurban lives in Montreal, and 76 of his extended family members are sti