[Mitai-announce] CORRECTION Tomorrow 730pm: RHETORIC and REPRESSION of Uyghur Muslims in Western China

[Kayvan]

whoops! the time is ACTUALLY 730pm... sorry about that

TOMORROW NIGHT, TUESDAY, MAY 15
7:30 - 9:00pm
Room 66-110 (Landau Building)

Kayvan wrote:
> RHETORIC and REPRESSION
> of Uyghur Muslims in Western China
> 
> Come listen to Rebiya Kadeer, often described as the spiritual mother or 
> Dalai Lama of the Uyghurs, discuss how Chinese minority policies are 
> affecting her people. (Detailed event description below.)
> 
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> TOMORROW NIGHT, TUESDAY, MAY 15
> 7:30 - 9:00pm
> Room 66-110 (Landau Building)
> 
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> 
> A brilliant businesswoman, Rebiya Kadeer rose from poverty to become 
> China's millionaire minority poster child. However, she quickly fell out 
> of the government's favor when she began to demand a change in its 
> policies toward the Uyghur minority. She was arrested in 1999 for 
> sending newspaper articles to her husband in the United States and was 
> released to America in 2005. Ms. Kadeer currently resides in Washington, 
> D.C., where she serves as president of the Uyghur American Association 
> and the World Uyghur Congress. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace 
> Prize in 2006.
> 
> Fearful of separatist tendencies in the majority Muslim population in 
> its westernmost province, China has instituted a systematic repression 
> that has failed to discriminate between legitimate threats to state 
> security and peaceful religious practice and tradition. After September 
> 11, China has used blanket accusations of terrorism to justify 
> repressive policies that suppress any Islamic ideology that does not, 
> according to a PRC internal document, "uphold the Marxist point of view 
> of religion and use the yardstick of the Party's."
> 
> Cosponsored by:
> MIT Program for Human Rights and Justice
> MIT Muslim Students' Association
> Amnesty International
> MIT Model United Nations
> MIT Public Service Center
> Forum on American Progress
>