It is a soulful folk song, filled with feeling and history: A love-stricken young man tells God about his hopes and dreams of happiness. Generations of Uyghurs, the Turkic ethnic minority in China’s Xinjiang region, have played it at parties and weddings.
But today, if they download it, play it or share it online, they risk ending up in prison.
Banning Uyghur songs is like the least ban thing china is doing. Its the only thing left at this point because they’ve already done the forced detainment, forced sterilization and forced cultural erasure of the entire Uyghur population.
The recording was shared exclusively with The Associated Press by the Norway-based nonprofit Uyghur Hjelp.
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the list of banned songs indicates repression in Xinjiang continues, albeit more subtly, said Rian Thum, a senior lecturer in East Asian history at the University of Manchester.
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“Besh pede” was flagged for its religious content, though the song hardly incites religious extremism, said Rachel Harris, a professor of ethnomusicology at SOAS University of London.
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In fact, a common denominator across the banned songs is that many were written or performed by imprisoned Uyghur musicians, said Elise Anderson, a nonresident senior fellow at the New Lines Institute who specializes in Uyghur issues.
The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, known as New Lines Institute for short, is an American non-partisan think tank focused on international affairs.
The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy was founded in 2019 by Iraqi-American entrepreneur Dr Ahmed Alwani as a non-partisan think tank based in Washington D.C.
It’s always surreal to see the kind of policy that comes out of the US and the UK with regard to religious minorities - particularly Muslims - and then read the journalism that these same countries produce.
Even Norway… a country that’s been ratcheting up its mass arrest and deportation of Muslims going on for the last decade, with a specific eye towards anyone who might be “radical”, seems to have no problem with anti-Muslim public policy on a national level.
I wonder what Yashar Xiaohelaiti, Mahmoud Khalil, and the Brize Norton 5 would have to say to each other if they’d been confined to the same prison cell.
What?
An attempt at Ml logic. Literal fallacies such as attacking the messenger to justify worse hypocrisy. The west does bad things, therefore China gets to do similar or worse bad things.
Keep in mind for the last several years. This person pretended to be concerned with what was happening to Palestinians. Screeching at anyone that didn’t agree 100% with them. with transactional allies like them, who needs more enemies.
The west does bad things, therefore China gets to do similar or worse
The justifications that westerners make for their anti-Muslim purged are only acceptable when they are laundered by Western media.
He Recorded China’s Detention of Uyghurs. The U.S. Wants to Deport Him to Uganda.
Even internally, they can’t keep their stories straight.
Mass detention, abuse, and deportation aren’t viewed as problems when the White kind of government does them
No, both are unacceptable. You are unacceptable.
both are unacceptable
Not in the eyes of US law enforcement. Or, really, any NATO member state
China propagandist bugging out over Uyghur genocide article.
