 Assalamu alaikum, brothers and sisters. I'm your brother, Qadir Jani Elgar, the president and president of the Uyghur Foundation. Uyghur Foundation is a proud sponsor, co-organizer of this event series. We call it China's Genocide Against Uyghur. Uyghur camps are ever speak out. First of all, on behalf of Uyghur Foundation and all Uyghurs here, we thank you for attending today's event. We especially thank to our guests, Uyghur president, Alvidar El Taber, and our three camp survivors at this stage are coming all the way from Washington, D.C., taking their time to share their testimony. Let's award the better understand plot of Uyghurs. And I want to especially thank, also at MCC, our always very supportive, encouraging, our beloved MCC community, providing us a platform like this, help us to, help us to, you know, help us with sessions so that our local community can hear the voice of Uyghur. Before we begin the program, I want to share a little bit about Uyghur Foundation. I know some of you know, some of you don't know. So Uyghur Foundation is a founded base in San Francisco. It's a 513 non-profit organization with primary mission to provide humanitarian support for Uyghurs in need all over the world and to preserve identity and culture. We help financially needed orphans, widows as well as support the camp survivors. We help to close to 1000 Uyghurs orphans, widows and a few camp survivors. We host a program like this, which aligns with our mission to help raise awareness to help people, help Uyghurs. A little house rule and reminder that, you know, we will do our Q&A session at the end of the testimony, the representation and the testimony, and we do it afterwards. And also just be mindful that, you know, because of nature of the testimony, some of the testimony might make you feel a little uncomfortable. So just as a reminder. And so lastly, you know, so I want to introduce our next speaker. Our next speaker I'm going to invite is Alfideh Altebar. Alfeideh Altebar was born in East Turkestan, currently based in D.C. She's a human rights activist, the president of the Uyghur American Association, based in D.C. and the daughter of prominent Uyghur scholar. Without further ado, please help me welcome Alfeideh Altebar. Assalamu alaikum. First, I would like to thank everyone who's here and also the Uyghur Foundation for sponsoring this trip, this event and also to MCC for hosting us. Thank you so much for your hospitality. And also, salam to the friends who's watching online. Uyghurs, basically I was born in Urumqi in East Turkestan, grew up in Istanbul and came to U.S. in 2000. And since I came in, I've been working for the Uyghur cause advocate. And last year I became the president of Uyghur American Association. Our organization is community-based organization, just like you guys. And we try to preserve and promote Uyghur culture, Uyghur language, Uyghur identity and our religion. However, because of the genocide in our homeland, we are focusing on advocacy and lobbying at Capitol Hill and doing a lot of human rights work recently. So let's talk about the China's genocide against Uyghurs. I would like to talk, sorry it doesn't move. So we'll talk about who are the Uyghurs and why China is committing this genocide, oppressing Uyghurs. And then Uyghur life before this genocide and also the life inside the camp and outside the camp in our homeland and what actions have been taken so far and also what can we do as a community member, as a person. So who are the Uyghurs? Uyghurs are Turkic and Muslim people that are native to Central Asia. We call our homeland East Turkistan. However, China calls it Xinjiang. We reject that name because it means new territory that was invaded. Uyghurs have more than 20,000 years of history, rich history. We had our own independence. We lived independently for years. We had prosperous states. However, once we were invaded and occupied in 1949, Uyghurs gave up their arms, our lands, our properties were taken confiscated and the population of Han Chinese back then, 1950s were 6% and it increased more than 50 now with the migration. Why China is committing this genocide and crimes against humanity to Uyghurs? The first reason is the Chinese Communist Party, they cannot tolerate diversity. They want, especially once the Xi Jinping became a president and general secretary. He wants one homogeneous Han Chinese population in China. We were independent in the past. We lived freely and starting 1990s when Soviet Union separated. That's when China got a little more scared and wanted to get firm grip of this land because they know they were never owned that land. It was not their land, it was occupied. So CCP wanted to control the region. Also, our land is such a geopolitical and economic important for Chinese ambitions. So basically it connects China to Eurasia for their trades, for their economic ambitions. So our geopolitical land is very important for them. They had to have a strong control. And Mr. Christon is very rich with minerals, resources, oil and all those and that China doesn't want to give up. Also for China's big population, it's the size of Alaska, if you think about it. And they would like to resolve those population problems as well by migrating Chinese, Han Chinese to our region. As you see in the map, it's very important where our homeland stays and that's why China wanted to have a strong firm grip control over this land. Oppression before the genocide was still there. Once we were occupied, slowly assimilation were taking place. So forced abortion, restriction on Uyghur language in our school, restriction on Uyghur names that and the Muslim names were banned, Turkic names were banned. For example, like Mohammed or Fatma, they're banned. We cannot name our children with those Islamic names. Also restrictions on practice of religion. Any practices like fasting or praying, also not allowed for the Uyghurs. And also separation from the Turkic and Muslim root. So Xi Jinping himself rewrote basically the history and trying to disconnect us from our root, from our Turkic root, from our Islamic religion rooted. And the first relocation of Uyghurs, especially the girls to inner China, that was also going on before the camp started. Before I talk about the camp, let me give you a little background information about how this has started. Starting 2016, we got disconnected from our loved ones. So there was no internet like communication, no phone calls, they were answering us because they were getting punished basically for communicating someone overseas. After the disconnection, we didn't know what was going on and then slowly our scholars, our doctors, our professors, writers, basically the backbone of our society were taken and detained. At the beginning China was denying, but once the Canadian researchers showed the satellite image of those camps, then China said, oh, those are vocational training camps, those are schools, reeducating Uyghurs and teaching them Chinese and things like that. And we were worried what was going on there. Once there were some camp survivors like you see today, they were able to escape because their husbands were our Kazakhstan citizen, Pakistan citizen or Egyptian. So they were able to advocate and get them out, basically help them to escape. And then we heard stories, personal testimonies about what is going on inside the camp. So political indoctrination in those camps, their torture, sterilization, their rape, forced labor, organ harvesting, separation of family and children. So kids were separated from their parents. Also, their identity and language and culture and religion were stripped away. Also, they were using Uyghurs in the camp as a testing zone like a guinea pig for their medicines or their technological tool. As you see on the photos on the top one, that is at the airport on the road, on the floor that says fast lane for organs. So I wanna talk about little bit that I said for organ harvesting on those camps before those detainees enter there have full body, biological body scans, x-rays, DNA checks, blood samples. So they're trying to use very expensive machines, tools to get those data. And they have this one big database. And then they're ready to match your DNA. If you need a kidney, if you need a heart in 48 hours to couple days, they can tell you we have someone that matches. And those are the Uyghurs in the camps, life people. Unfortunately, they even advertise halal organs to Arabic or Muslim countries that saying because Uyghurs are Muslim, they don't mostly, they don't drink alcohol and they don't eat pork. They look at it like those organs are halal. And they basically market that to the Islamic countries. And that's why in what country you need a fast lane at the airport for organs, that shows the intensity, the level of organ harvesting going on that we don't have exactly evidence to show this person did this because everyone is very afraid to speak up. That's the level of the scary stories going on in those camps. Very, very, very small camps as you see, those wooden table as you see, they eat there, they study there, they sleep there. And that one small room, so many people crowded. And their bathroom is that corner blue bucket. Everything is watched 24 seven lights are on, their cameras everywhere. And they learn Xi Jinping's codes. They learn political indoctrination, CCP's propagandas in those camps. This is a Da Wen Cheng camp that in 2015, there were, as you see, it was like a mountain. In 2018, CCP built a big camp, concentration camp there that can hold 70,000 people. This is just the one camp. And we know there are more than 570, I believe, camps in East Turkestan. Life outside the camps, so we talked about what people go through inside the camps. And outside is not big different actually. It's basically like a living in the open air prison. 24 seven, their cameras on the street, you're being watched, you're monitored, everything you do is recorded. There is surveillance state, forced sterilization also going on, forced abortion, forced marriage, unfortunately because of the one child policy that China had starting 1980s, China had, they were basically doing abortion for the girls to keep their last name longer. And there were so many men compared to the women, their population was in balance, so they need more brides. And that was a solution by the Communist Party, the state run this incentives, these plans to, if you marry Han Chinese, you will get awarded this much of money, this much of help from government. And Uyghur girls were forced to marry the Chinese Communist Party's cadre. And if you don't, then you're being threatened that your parents might be taken to the concentration camp or if they're in the camp they might be killed. So those girls, they sacrifice their life, marry someone who's not their religion, marry someone who's not their own nation, marry someone who's not their own culture, just to save their family members. You see on the photos, the girl's face, you should be very happy on your wedding, right? She is crying that what she's going through, I can't imagine. So forced labor transfers to China, also another big issues according to Adrienne's report, 1.6 million Uyghurs were transferred from inside China from East Turkistan to inner China. Elimination of identity, language and culture and religion, also going on outside. Another important thing I left at the end is the homestay policy that China brought. They basically bring from Han Chinese, from the government cadre to your house. Imagine a stranger comes to your house in your home, stays with you for months and report everything you do. Are you praying, are you using God's name? Are you saying something against the government? They report everything, document everything and monitor everything and tell the CCP. So that is very unacceptable that you even have to share your bed with them. And imagine some family, the fathers or the men of the family is taken to the concentration camp. Those men had to stay with the remaining part of the family. We talked about forced utilization, again with Adrienne's report in Associated Press. The birth rate fell 60% from 2015 to 2018. And this is basically they're killing us, destroying us before even we are born, brothers. This is unbelievable compared to, for example, Uzbeks are very close to us and their population was around 13 million in 1950s and about 33 million now. But according to Chinese sources that Uyghurs were around 12 million and we say more than 3 million are in the camps. Besides that I talk about the children, right? I am a mother of two. When I heard about these concentration camps, I was wondering what is happening to the kids. Unfortunately, they're not given to grandparents most of the case. They are also taken to the kids, state-run orphanages, boarding schools, kindergartens and stripped away from their identity, their religion, their culture, their language and basically raised as a subject to CCP subject. It's like robotic machines that who doesn't know who they are. This is very sad and I'm worried about our future. We talked about forced labor earlier and I wanted to expand it a little bit that, so China using forced labor not just get cheaper labor, it's also their genocidal policy. When they transfer Uyghurs from East Turkestan to especially Uyghur women, right, to inner China, they take those women at the age of giving a bird away. So they're away, they don't give bird that way they control the population. And if they have kids, they're separated so they cannot pass it through, transfer their language, their culture, their religion to their kids. Also, kids were taken. So that's how they are trying to achieve the homogeneous one Han Chinese nation by separating families from each other. Also, other related to forced labor, so 80% of the cotton of China comes out of our region because it's such a good quality and fine threads. And 20% of the world's cotton also comes out of China and that is linked to Uyghur forced labor besides that the polysilicon of the solar panels, electronics, auto parts, agriculture products such as like tomato. All those things use Uyghur forced labor that we need to be careful. US passed a forced labor prevention act and it started to be implemented last year in July. So we are a little better compared to other countries. However, China is using Canada or UK or other countries, European countries as a dumping ground now and they can't bring those products to US. They're still selling them to other countries. That's why we need to contact our countries, our government to let them know about this Uyghur forced labor issue. Sorry, I keep going a little in details. So also we talked about our rich culture, our architecture as you see on the photos on the left here that we had beautiful home decorations and houses built based on Uyghur's culture. However, they were also destroyed under the name of, it's too old or not safe and they were building new apartments and Uyghurs. That's also part of cultural genocide. So when it comes to Islam, not just Islam actually, any religion, China, CCP looks at it as a disease. It's like a cancer. It's threatening to them because when you have a faith, you're stronger. When you have a faith, you have a community. When you have a community, you can be against to certain things. You can stand up for injustice, for example. So they're very scared of that and they were continuing by demolishing the mosques, around 60% of the mosques in East Turkestan were demolishing or transformed into hotels and restaurants and bars, unfortunately. I wanted to get some of those signs that were on the mosque. So we cannot go pray at the mosque, but even the people, like old people who are allowed or who can go, those are the things on the wall as the regulations or rules. The first one says Adhan and China rewrote basically the Adhan. And it says, you know, come, it's a little small, I can see it now, but instead of only one word, just say come pray, the rest, they change it to its own agenda. The second one says Tespi. So it's basically when you're using Tespi instead of Allahu Akbar, Subhanallah, or Alhamdulillah. They said, you need to say, thank for Communist Party, thank for Xi Jinping, you need to say that. Like these rules are on the mosque. Imagine how, what kind of Islam that they are building in East Turkestan. And the last one is as you see the Korans, the praying rocks, they're burning those items because having Koran in your house, praying outside, all those things are banned. Those are reasons for you to be taken to the concentration camp. Transnational repression is important for the Uyghurs who live outside China. Unfortunately, we deal with the survivor's guilt and also the China's long hand. When we wanna speak up about the truth, China trying to hold our family member as a hostage back home and trying to control our action here. Basically, I'll delete that tweet. Don't give testimonies, that kind of threatening messages we get all the time. And this guy on the left, Yusuf Zhang was threatened to be spy and when he didn't agree, he was shot in Turkey. That's one example. Another way of China getting students back is basically when your passport expired, the embassy here or wherever you are, they don't extend your passport and say you need to go back to homeland and get your passport expired there. When you go, you're arrested. Anyone who got education overseas, they are afraid and they think you are a threat because you're open to democracy, you're open to religious freedom, you're open to freedom of speech. And when you go back, they think you're going to spread those values to Chinese or the Uyghurs and they're afraid of that, unfortunately. Lastly, so both Trump administration and Biden administration announced it as a genocide because we have been giving enough evidence, proofs and reports to the world. US passed two bills, Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act and Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act. Many European countries, nine of them, followed the suit of US and they also declared as genocide and crimes against humanity. And most recent report by UN also clearly said that it constitutes crimes against humanity. Now the last part, what can we do as a community member? First thing is raise awareness, spread the word, tell your neighbors, tell your friends, tell your, if you're in the church, tell your people there, if you're in the mosque, share with your friends about what's going on. Now you know, you cannot say I didn't know about it. Best thing is to raise awareness and share this knowledge because this is the truth. Also support Uyghur diaspora organization, sign up, go to their events, donate if you can, the financial, they're all undersourced, they don't have enough resources. Contact your congress members to advocate for bills on Uyghurs. Tell your congress members that you support and you want your congress members to support Uyghurs bill. Write UN to pass a resolution and last thing is don't buy made in China product. If I'm sorry if I bore you, but those are the truth that we're dealing with every day. Now I would like to introduce our camp survivors. They will share their personal stories. I will be doing a summary translation, I will try my best. Thank you. First speaker is Zumrat Dawoud. Peace be upon you. My name is Zumrat Dawoud. I grew up in the city of Turkestan and I was born in Urumqi, East Turkestan. My husband is Pakistani, Pakistani citizen. And we have three kids. We lived most of our lives in Urumqi. I'd like to talk about my city, what happened in my city. In the beginning of 2016, the people were getting arrested and detained, insane. Most of the people that were arrested, the reasons were given as praying or learning about their religion. And those people were present from five years to even 25 to 30 years. In the beginning of the 13th year, I started praying and learning about their religion. I started praying and learning about their religion. In the 16th year, I started praying and learning about their religion. I didn't know how to pray because I knew about their religion. And so that's what we did, followed the rule. However, around 2016, then they started to arrest those people who went to the mosque and they had proofs. Since we don't have enough time, I will just talk about the main, bigger topics and what happened to me. In 2018, I was also called by the Chinese police to the local police office. I have a question for you. I will ask you one more question. How did you learn about the religion of Pakistan? Were you taught about religion in Pakistan? Were you taught about religion in Pakistan? Were you taught about Islam? Were you taught about the religion of Islam? So when I was arrested, I was asked so many questions. Among them, some of them were, did you learn about Islam, your religion? Since your husband is Pakistani, Pakistan citizen, did he teach you about Islam and did he teach you your religion? So there were two child policies for us, we were there, but I had three kids, that was the other reason for me. I was constantly questioned about that too and they said, is this because your religious beliefs that you had the third child? So when I was taken, first I was taken to the room, underground room and when I was going there, I saw, I witnessed that there were so many Quran religious books and praying rugs and even scarves. They were in one corner that just collected, most likely from Uighurs. And they were so disrespectful, they were kicking it, they were like putting in the corner and I saw that. During the interrogation, everything was being watched, there were cameras and even if you need to go to a bathroom, you are supposed to do it in front of those police. everything is being watched and no matter what, if you're a woman or man, they were male police. So first before they take me to the real camp room, I was taken to hospital like rooms and everything full biological like x-rays were done, my blood samples were taken, my fingerprints were taken, even my eye, the iris scans were taken and then they took me to the room. I spent 62 days in those concentration camps, there were ladies in my cell and from age of 17 to 75. During the 62 days I had to take unknown medicines every day, I had to give blood samples every 15 days and every month we were also getting scanned and given... After 62 days, I was released, I didn't know what was going on, but then I learned it was going to happen. After 62 days I was innocent, after 62 days I was released, I didn't know what was going on, but then I learned it was my husband who were advocating trying to release me and contacted embassy in Beijing and trying to get me out of those camps. My friends here and I were the lucky ones, we were able to escape because our husbands were not Chinese, they were foreign citizens. However all those ladies in our cell they're still in those camps. It was super very cold in those camps when I only stayed 62 days, but once I released up to 6 months I was not healthy. I was still having hard time adjusting even going to the bathroom. After I released I was also called again and said that there is a new policy, new rules because I have more than two kids. I had to be sterilized and I had to go and complete the sterilization procedures. This is my doctor's letter that shows that I was sterilized in China, this is the evidence. I was still productive but I was sterilized when I was 36. My husband and I we really love kids, we wanted to have more kids too. My husband was begging and imploring the Chinese police and those doctors not to sterilize me and said please let us just stay without the sterilization. However they didn't allow us, they threatened us like not giving my passport so I was very scared to protect my kids I had to agree with them. It was very hard to get our passport, we went through a lot of financial and other procedures in there because what I went through I didn't want to stay in my hometown I felt like I'm not safe so we came to Pakistan. So they had all our information when we were leaving to Pakistan where we were staying, when we were returning so we had to buy return tickets to all the details and they kept all those information and allowed me to go for one month only. Even when I was in Pakistan after one month I kept getting threatening phone calls, I just wanted to stay in my husband's house can't I? I was constantly called and called back to China. I was in America for 16 months and my family was in the US and I was sending my passport to the US. I was very scared to go to the US and I was very scared to go to the US and I was very scared to go to the US and I was very scared to go to the US. When I applied for a visa for US I got 10 years visa, once I got my passport back from the Chinese government I thought that's the only way out for me to be safe and I came to US with my kids and husband. Since I came to US I learned what freedom is that China can't do all those things to me here in the US on the US soil and I started to be the voice for my voiceless people back home. In 2019 I went to New York to give a testimony at the UN event. While I was going there I received a phone call and my brother said that I had to stop. I shouldn't keep going otherwise my dad is in the hand of Chinese police. But that couldn't stop me. I still went to UN event and spoke and told the world about Uyghur genocide. After around 10 days unfortunately none of my relatives kept in touch with me. However my Chinese neighbor called me and said my dad died in the hands of Chinese police. The Chinese police clearly said that because of my action my father passed away. Before I left China I tried to gather information. I knew the names of the people, the Chinese and concentration camps. Even imams, the people who went to Hajj and detained for that. People who prayed and detained for that. I have some of those information I brought with me. Some of the parents of the Uyghur girls who accept to marry Chinese, their parents were released unfortunately. And those girls had no choice they had to marry to save their parents and they had to marry with 10 Chinese. Another Chinese policy, the homestay policy is the brothers sister's program that they bring a Chinese person to our house and this was mine. With the homestay policy that we had to share our food, share our day, our trips, even our bed with the Chinese country unfortunately. And this is very inhumane and it's not even fit to any religion beliefs. This is my 11 years old daughter and that is her brother, Chinese brother that the government decided. Can you imagine this, your daughter who is at the age of 11 has to spend time with unknown Chinese men like this? Those Chinese people came and stayed with us, had to take pictures of their activities, daily report what we've been doing. Another thing that I can't accept is the government all of a sudden told us that they need the land of my mother's graveyard. So they told all the Uyghurs to remove the corpse, remove the dead bodies from those lands and I had to dig and get my mother's body out and around 5 to 40 days we had to keep them. My relatives had to dig out my mother's body. Can you imagine that once we had those dead bodies, they didn't give us instruction where to bury, they said they don't have a place yet that we have to wait. And we had to keep those in our houses. Some newer bodies, they had to break the bones to make it smaller so they can fit the new land. This is the place they gave us at the end, it's like a 40 by 40 centimeter, this small space that we have to bury those bodies here. This is how small the new place they gave us that we had to fit the body in those. If I talk about everything, the scale of these oppression is unacceptable, unbelievable and I think I'm just talking about one percent of what is really going on. We love each other, we love each other, we love each other. My demand is, please, especially Muslim brothers and sisters, we have the same God, same belief, we believe in the same jinnat afterwards. So I ask you to pray for us, I ask you to stay on our side, I ask you to stay on the truth and raise awareness and help us. Even other religious, people from other religious are helping because this is a humanity issue. I expect my brother, sister to help even more. Thank you. Thank you. Our next speaker is Mikhri Gil Tursun and she will try to speak in English, right? I try. Assalamu alaikum. My name is Mikhri Gil Tursun. I try to explain my whole horrible story in Chinese concentration camp. It was my broken English, but my English is not very good, but I try to explain. And I am first, thanks for my Allah, give me a second chance to for life. And then thanks for all Muslim brothers and sisters here, stay with us and protect all Uyghur Muslims. I was born in East Turkestan, an Uyghur homeland. Until 10 years old, I studied with Uyghur student, Uyghur language. And then from when I have 10 years old, then Chinese Communist Party sent me to China city Guangzhou from my homeland to Guangzhou is 2700 miles far away. This sent me to the Chinese city with Chinese student together study high school university in China by Chinese language, Chinese history. So I stay 10 years in China city without my parents in school, high school university and 10 years in China. After when I have 20 years old, I apply for high bachelor degree outside China. So I choose the coming Egypt in England University in Cairo. So when I come in Egypt first year, I study by Arabic language. And then after another four years, I study with my business class. So 2012, I don't know what it's, that time I met my husband in Egypt. He is Egyptian, so we get married. So 2015, when I was 25 years old, I become triplet mother. I have triplet one time, two boy one girl, she born in Egypt Cairo. When my kid is two months old, so my parents always calling me to come back to visit them. So because we have in Muslim, we have baby coming, so we have like some party. So I go back to my hometown with my three children with Egyptian passport. I was in Chinese passport. So of course my husband to apply also comes with me to China, but Chinese embassy only give my three kids Chinese visa, but they didn't approve for my husband Chinese visa. And we don't know why. So I think okay, my husband can waiting after that come to take us from China. So I take my three kids and me, we go back to China. It's 2015, May 12th. When I just arrived to China airport, so in Chinese, in Urumqi airport, Chinese police ask me to have some question, want to ask me. So I go to Chinese police. So they are taking from me my three kids away. I need to ask them where they are taking but they don't want to answer. In airport, three hour they ask me a lot of question why I go to Egypt. They know why I go to Egypt. I go to study. I take student visa. And then they ask me a lot of question about three hour. After three hour, I ask them where is my kids because they are only two months old. I give them breastfeeding and they need to eat or changing diaper or something, but I ask always they don't answer. They tell me only answer our question. You cannot ask from us any question. Then after three hour, one Chinese man coming suddenly steak my mouse and give my head black hole. Give my hand, hand cup. Take me to from airport. So when I go to airport, so police car, enter the police car inside. They push me strongly. I fall down and broken my nose. I need to scream but I cannot because he steak my mouse. From that time, until more than two months, I spend the Chinese camp without, I don't know where is my three kids and my parents or my husband. Nobody visit me, nobody come to see me or service me. But this more than two months, every two days, he take me to outside question room, question, and I have a lot of torture, beating, something. After two months, he told me, you kids have sick. So we let you to permit time to go outside free from prison. But of course, two Chinese police with me 24 hour, where I going, they come with me together. Of course, they take my Chinese ID and passport, my cell phone. So they say I am in the black list person, dangerous person. So they can take me any time to prison, the camp. But now I am only permit time because my kids are outside. So I cannot contact with anybody. I cannot using cell phone. If I need anything, I will tell behind with me to police. So that day, I go to Chinese hospital in RMT, children hospital. And I see my one son, Moise and daughter Elena, they had big surgery from their neck. And the health is very, very bad condition. And they give me another of my son, Mohanet, his dead body. They say your son is dead morning because we give him surgery. It's always total five months, I didn't see my kids. I didn't know what happened for them. And until now I have question, why they are doing surgery for my kids? I am 25 years old, this is my first kid. I am very exciting, I have triplet. I have very big dream, take care of them. But they take this chance from me. After that they give my kids dead body. They let me go out from hospital. Any doctor, anybody cannot tell me what happened. They don't want to answer my question. And the police want me close my mouth. My mouth, don't speak, anybody go out from hospital. So that time my mom, my dad is me. We want to take care of this dead body baby. We don't know what we are doing. We want to take the kids to, of course, in Muslim. If anybody die, we take them to, I guess, for the masjid prayer in our country, no. That time I want to take kids. I tell a lot of people, please, I can't pay money. Take my kids to masjid prayer in Jinnazah. They are not accept. They are not accept. So I want to take my kids to for put any Qabra. They don't want me allowed to put any Qabra. Where are you going, this dead body? I try to let my kids wake up. He cannot. Finally I find one Uyghur guys. He give me secretly his mother Qabra behind small place. He want me to put the kids here. Of course that time three police car with me, with my mom, with me, don't want us to pray or make any dua for kids. We put my son in this Qabra without any pray, any dua. This is very hard for me. This is my first kid in my life. So after that we go back to turn off the Charjan. My hometown Charjan from Urimchi is capital city. Charjan is small city. From Urimchi to Charjan, two days drive car. Two hundred five, two thousand five hundred miles far away. So when I go to Charjan, again they take me to camp. So from 2015 to until 2018, I have spent 13 months in total in the camp. But another time is this switch me a lot of different camp and sometime in hospital because I am in three months. I witnessed with me same sale nine woman dead. They take this dead body like something bad animal like that. But a lot of women every day they take them from the camp. A lot of take a lot of women outside and another new woman coming. The outside women they are not come back. We don't know what happened for them. And this camp condition is very bad. We cannot drink water. We cannot shower. We cannot go outside from the one room. All women they are sheath our hair and we have everyone have handicap. We are still like waiting what time is coming to our dead turn. We don't have any news what time we are going to go outside. So because this bad condition I lost my memory. I fell down. Then after when I wake up I was in the RMJ hospital. Of course they give my hand this handicap. And the two police was behind my bed. They give me a lot of medicine every week one time. And every week one time they give me injection. But we don't know what this medicine what this injection. After when my health a little bit become good. They take me to again the sale 2017 October. Then they give me one paper wanting me sign. And that time is they give to change my prison clothes. Actually our camp clothes is blue color. Chinese all same. After that they change for me orange color clothes. So they told me so I is at times I getting death sentences. So because I am very half a terrorist mind. Because I go to Egypt I start where he jab. I study pray. So I am living with Muslim people. Maybe I have terrorist mind. So I get a death sentences. So they told me to sign paper to for my two kiddos. Because the Chinese all the writing was and Elina my two kiddos name. That not writing father names. You want to mean writing father name for them. After that I reject. I say my kid is born in Egypt. I don't have two kiddos. I have triplet. You killed one of my kiddos. So the two kiddos you must be before you kill me to return back to Egypt. If you don't return back one day the Egypt government will search where is this kiddos. So after these sharks we ask a lot of the Egyptian embassy in China search about everything. After three months the Chinese police very upset come to the camp to want me take outside. I think this time is maybe they will take me to go to that. Because they give me three option. When I have to that I have only three option to choose one is with gun shooting. One is give my gift for my body to for any hospital for using or another was medicine. So if I choose with gun shooting they must be shoot me three gun. Everyone shooting I need to pay 600 RMB before I dead. So I let him to whatever you kill me you can choose. But this is either up and I handle Allah. So after that of course in the prison is very horrible. All I I stand I cannot pray we cannot do anything. But I know Allah can see our heart he can feeling I pray a lot. I'm only 27 year old. I die. Okay. But what what can do my kids please help me give me one chance to take care of my kids. I pray a lot. Alhamdulillah Allah give me one second life time to for life. After the Chinese government the 27 2018 January coming. They very upset to take me to outside from the jail. They say want me go to police station. When I go police station. I'm shocked. I see a lot of Egyptian government people and my husband there. They coming to take off my kids. They want me son. So my husband tells them to my kid is a three not two. Where's one of them? They say we don't know. We don't know you're another one kid is because your wife only come to China with two kids. They are reject inshallah I will one day to all world knows. So when I when I speak to Egyptian government and my husband coming to China to help pick us. So that time. Yeah. So Chinese government of course doesn't kill me. They take me to Chinese office. Then I made my husband Egyptian government is there in China. So after when I go to police office. My husband of course search ask the Chinese police. My kid is a three not two. Where is one one kid is they told them we don't know until now. They are talking the all news every video. They say me he will have only two kids. He we don't know one kids after two years. They say me he will have one kid is in Turkey. Two kid is with them in America. How one one mother he has. He blesses kids and if he is kid is live tell whole world of my kid is dead. So Allah knows that inshallah. So then my husband ask this and they told them the Chinese government told them we don't know another kid is we have only two kids. So after my husband say OK when I go to Egypt I will tell all international court about Chinese government what they doing for my son. So they tell my husband shut your mouth don't say anything. But if you accept don't say anything in the world in the news we can give you your wife. So after my husband take my kid is under me. So 2018 April 16 we left from China safety. Of course when we in Beijing airport four time Chinese police try to don't let us to go airplane. They stopped our ticket one day have a problem second day because every time international airport airplane because two kids and the husband and the me. A lot expensive of course they are not reason but police doesn't let us to pass go. Last time we tell my husband this woman is very dangerous he cannot go out from China. How much money you want to get we can pay for you. But don't take this woman outside from China. Then my husband he scream in the airport after he lift us go out from China. Then I just go from out China to we just arrive Egypt airport. So when I go out from Egypt airport the Egyptian police catch my husband. They say your wife is Chinese but you get married with Egyptian. Any Chinese cannot stay in Egypt anymore because in Egypt government is Chinese government have they have negotiation. I don't know have some contract something. Before I come to China when I was 2017 I was in China. So is this in Egypt of course have a lot of Uyghur student study in Azhar University. The 2017 the return Egyptian government return 370 Uyghur return back to China. Because this reason they are saying Egyptian government can good friendship with Chinese. So they let me go out from China for permanent time. But when I come to Egypt airport 2018 April was my husband and my two kids. They let me go out from airport enter Cairo inside but don't want me my husband go with me. The police take my husband they want to have some check out. But after I stay my husband parents home about 15 days. Everyday the Chinese Egyptian police coming to search ask about me. So that meaning is they must be I must be return back to China. So that time I contact with my parents in China. So my parents say please come back China. If you want to see us if you want to save us please come back China. But when your kid is grow up. Then I understand because they cannot speak anything to give us any information. They listen to phone everything. So that time I understand I cannot go if I go she will kill me of course. And then when I left from China that time they take from my family 26 people. My father mother sister and the brother to person. So we have like contract if I come back they can release from my family 26 people. If I don't come back they will kill them. But after my parents talk to me don't think about us please come back China. But when your kid is grow up that meaning is don't come. Because they will kill me also they can whatever they do for my family. So after that I cannot stay in Egypt I cannot go back to China. I don't have any document and my husband not with me. So I try to before I die share all my story whole world. But no one believe me. I try to go to Turkey. I cannot I don't have document. Then I go to American Embassy. I told them I am not Egyptian. I am not Chinese. I am Uyghur. I have stages horrible life in camp. We have this is I tell all my story. Then US Embassy let me to stay in the hotel after the stage all my information. Then they believe me and they have true document everything his hand. After that they help me to with my two kids and me 2018. September bring me US as a refugee. But until now I am here with my two kids free. And of course my two kids is disabled not healthy. And when I was camp they give me electric torture. And before I go from China back camp they give me soldier is their life. I cannot have any more baby. I cannot hear from my right ear. I lost hearing and my health also still have some problem because they give me a lot of injection and medicine. So about near the five year I stay here with my two kids without husband without my father and my mother and sister brother. I don't know where they are. They are alive or no. I miss them. I miss their voice. Sometimes my kids ask me everyone have daddy. We don't have daddy mommy. Why we are alone. But I tell them we are happy family. A lot of Muslim with us. When I go every speech I see some big guys. I search my father face from there. I search my sister face. When I say a lot of women I think they are my sister. They have someone of my mom. I cannot find them. But alhamdulillah everywhere bigger Allah loves me here. Allah protect me. Allah give me second chance. But I cannot stop. Because I have horrible life in concentration camp. I witness a lot of women die. So I need to be voice from them. And I am here. So tell you all guys. Please protect Oygur. Do whatever you do. Try to make any action to stop China doing for genocide. Oygur. And thank you so much. Pray for us. Thank you so much. Our last speaker is a camp survivor. Tursunay Ziyawudun. I will be translating. Summary translation. Hello. I am Tursunay Ziyawudun. I am a member of the Jaza Lawyer. I am a citizen of Turkestan. I am the head of the Tursunay Ziyawudun camp. Hello everyone. My name is Tursunay Ziyawudun. I am a camp survivor from the China's concentration camps. I am from Kunas region of Ghulja city of East Turkestan. In total I stayed in the concentration camps for a year. First time it was a month and a half. And second one was ten and a half months. So one year I spent one year of my life in concentration camps. My name is Kazak. I have been in concentration camps for almost 10 years now. Because my husband was a Kazakh citizen, I went to Kazakhstan and stayed there for five years. And then when I came back to my homeland to visit, I didn't know what was going on that was 2017 and I was arrested So in my first one and a half months in the concentration camps was very hard. There were around 1000 people with me in that camp. The condition was very horrible. For example, the food was cooked by the Chinese cook. So we were given alcohol, we were given bacon or pork products and we were forced to eat those things. Of course I wasn't used to those foods and by time I got sick and my stomach had very severely impacted and I was hospitalized and I was released. And then I stayed outside, not in the camp till 2018 and I was taken back again to the concentration camps. Before I was taken back for the second time, my older brothers and younger brothers were also taken to the concentration camps and so many people from our region were taken that the city was almost empty. I was taken back to the concentration camps and I was taken back to the concentration camps and I was released. The city of Kholja is usually very crowded, however it was like a war looking ghost city. There were armed police everywhere, there were like tanks and it turned to something totally different to very fast. I was taken to the first camp and the first camp was in the East, that is the Kaspi school in the West. The camp was in 18th and I was completely taken back to the concentration camps. It was not long after that I was taken back to the concentration camps and I was taken back to the concentration camps and the camp was full of people. So the second time when I was taken and it was much different, the previous one was at least it was like a school like building but second time it was like a real prison. There were armed police everywhere like watchtowers and it was much much big crowd. I think it might be you know holding around 10,000 people because they were big buildings and I witnessed so many horrible stories but I will just talk about a couple of them now. So when we were taken to the second time the room was very small it's like four meters square room and very crowded so many ladies stayed with us. In that room we were not allowed to take go outside for going to bathroom restrooms. There were small red bucket in the corner and that was our restroom and everything is being watched with by everyone. At the beginning we were learning intense Chinese and other propaganda. The condition was terrible no hygiene as I said we couldn't shower for months and finally they allow us to take a shower but it was very cold water that there were some old ladies couldn't adjust and when you reject or say something against to the police you also get punished. So our daily life was like that and if you get sick in there because of the bad condition you never get treated. Some old ladies have their fevers they got very sick but they're never given medicines so it was those kind of environment. Also they started to take us time to time for questioning room and questioning interrogating us asking lots of questions. Sometimes some ladies you know they leave the room for questioning and they never come back some comes back and very quiet don't talk to anyone some lose their conscious it's very hard to continue your life in those camps in those cells and one day they also called me. Yeah. So I was a little younger, I could take it, but there were very old ladies that I could not un-seen those memories from my memory. Those ladies didn't even have enough hair on their head, they don't even have tea. They were very old and because they don't speak Chinese, time to time they speak Uyghur language and they get punished because of speaking our mother tongue. So basically speaking your own language, showing anything related to your religion, anything related to your identity, Uyghur identity was banned and being punished in there. It's very hard to continue your life in there. One of those days in the great interrogation room, I was also questioned. The questions they asked, she said earlier, that if you went to overseas, who did you meet with, did you contact any organizations, what did you do and those kind of questions. I was a little against what they said and I was also bitten and kicked, tortured. So besides all this what's going on, at night they started to take us for questioning or I don't know what are the reasons. Some girls were taken by the unfamiliar faces of some Chinese men in black suits, they come and they're not the regular police there and called some ladies by name and they take them out, some never comes back, some comes back as losing their conscious, some they lose their mind, some are like very heavy bleeding. So I thought they were being tortured and one day they also called me and another Uygur girl who is only 21 years old, who is unmarried, she was so beautiful, we both were called to the dark room. One day the police called me and another Uygur girl who is only 21 years old, who is unmarried, she was so beautiful, we both were called to the dark room. I witnessed her being raped in front of my eyes, she was screaming and begging and after that she was like lost, her conscious, she was in herself, she cried every day and it's very hard to handle. Don't want to talk about the details. Even when she was released multiple times, she was called by the Chinese government officials for their alcohol night parties, she had to go and multiple times she contacted me to help her but there was nothing I could do. I too actually went through the same fate with her that I was also called at night and went through what she went through. So in 2018 I was called for questioning again until that I lost my hope of living. She said earlier, I wanted to die, there was no reason to live for me but I was called one day and questioned. There was one lady who stayed there for so long but she got pregnant in there and she was also punished and then they also called all the ladies there and sterilized. In 2018, December 25th, I was released because my husband who was a Kazakhstan citizen were advocating and trying to get me out and contacted the government officials. I was not able to meet her. I was not able to get out of the airport, or I was not able to meet her. I was not able to meet her. My last night in the camp, some of the girls knew that I was going to leave the camp, so they admired me. Because it was my last day, usually we take turns to sleep, a couple of people stay awake to look and watch, and that day I wanted to take that responsibility because I was going to be released next day and I could sleep, but even for that I got punished and the police were asking me, why giving your turn to ask someone else. As I woke up in the tent, I saw a boy, Garără, asking me if I would be able to sleep. I couldn't hear him, he just called me, I said I will be released, I will not go there. Imente went to a man, I said I would be released in the tent, and he called me, I asked him, if I was going to be released, and told him that I was going to be released, Today I was released. I was supposed to be happy that horrible life was going to end and I was going to be free. However, I was not. I thought about those girls who cried and stayed with me in my cell and my brothers were also in the same camps. When I was leaving, I remember clearly it was snowing that day. My feet were moving very hardly. My brother from one of the windows called my sister and I looked back and I felt terrible that I was leaving and he was staying. Not just my brothers. I had my cousins, my relatives in those camps. So I couldn't share the happy feelings of leaving knowing that all my brothers and sisters still in the camps stayed behind me. I didn't know what was going on when I was in the camp but my husband was contacting media and giving testimonies about me being in the camp. When the Chinese government gave me my passport and I traveled to Kazakhstan, then I learned how I was able to escape. I was in the US. I was released under the condition of coming back to Kazakhstan. I was released under the condition of coming back in three months so I signed papers. Once I came to Kazakhstan, first I was still afraid and scared and I thought I was going to go back. But then by time I had to speak. I had to share the truth. So I gave some part of my experience as a testimony to some of the reporters. Right after my testimony I started to get threatening messages from Chinese police. They even tried to burn my house in Kazakhstan. I was in a lot of trouble when I came back. I was killed by a thief and I was in a rush to get out of the house. I couldn't walk because I was in a hurry to get out of the house. But I was in a lot of trouble because I was in a hurry to get out of the house. So U.S. government, America helped me to come to Turkey and from Turkey I came to U.S. I was very sick when I came, I was able to get treatment, luckily here in the U.S. I went through major surgeries, trauma, and I got treated here. I am living now, however, you know, I'm still like a dead person, but I need to speak up, I need to still share what I went through. For example, when my brother was taken to the camp, also the Chinese, the homestay policy was active and Han Chinese came to my brother's house and stayed with my sister-in-law. And basically, in a summary, ruined their family as well, separated their family. So the Chinese government's clear intention is sterilize us, intention is decrease the population of Uyghurs, intention is eradicating Uyghurs, and I realize that and I said to myself that I need to speak up. We need to make sure that this nation is protected and we should not have to suffer like this. So it is a human right for the Chinese people, so if we have to fight fighting for the people, what is our right to fight, if we have to suffer pain, if we have to fight for the people, you know what, we are the people who are against the Chinese people. It is a right for the people of the country to fight for the people of the country. So as a camp survivors, we were in that fire, we were inside those camps and we have the pain until now, every day we deal with this trauma, we cannot forget what we went through. What we demand from you guys is we are brothers and sisters, we have the same religion, we have the same fate, we shouldn't stop. Now you know what we went through, basically what we are trying to do is we have eyewitness what the Chinese government is doing to Uyghur brothers and sisters. We expect others to do the same, help us take an action, pray for us and help Uyghur Muslims in China. Thank you. Chinese government force every single Uyghur to download this app. This is the app. Chinese government has control of every single moment of our conversations, what we watching, what we saying to each other and what we reading, they can monitor that. Because of this app, we can't even use the Islamic word like salamu alaykum or khuda hafiz or that kind of all those religious related words are banned if you use those words in couple minutes police comes and take you to the detainment camps. Can you imagine because we cannot fast, we are not allowed to fast, if we turn on the lights at night in the middle of the night for sahur, the Chinese police walks around and check which house is turning their lights. So some of our people, they go to bathroom and they eat their sahur inside the bathroom so no police notice them. Did you know that they use our own kids as a spies on our activities? They ask our children at school, is your parents fasting, is your parents praying, do you guys have Quran in the house, poor little kids, they speak the truth and because of that many parents are taken to the concentration camps. You guys are free here, you can go to mosque with your kids, you can pray together, you can teach our religion to your kids. Say Alhamdulillah because we teach our kids not to share those, not to tell them that we have Quran in the house, not to tell the police or their teachers that we talked about religion in the house, we had to teach those things to our kids. When I was released, when we came to Pakistan, first time when my kids heard about Adan, they were so scared, they didn't know what to do, they were asking me what to do with Adan, do we have to listen to this? They were basically lost. Isn't it? As you see, even in this condition, we try our best to keep our religion, continue our religion. You guys are in the free world, isn't our holy book Quran says when there is injustice, stand up for it? Isn't our Quran says help your brothers and sisters, help the oppressed, not the oppressor? I am very disappointed in Islamic world, especially our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries that they're not doing enough, they're not speaking up, their government is not doing enough. We really hope and demand and beg you and implore you that even in Islam, when your neighbor is hungry, you shouldn't go to sleep or you shouldn't go to hajj, but now your neighbor, your brothers and sisters in China are being oppressed and facing this genocide, so what we really want is your help, take some action, thank you. Now we would like to take questions, if you have questions, Qadir-jan. Anyone have a question, give me a raise your hand. I don't have a question per se, but I want to say thank you so much for coming, I heard about this situation, I didn't know the details, I'll be honest, forgive me, yeah, thank you. I didn't know the whole details of the situation, but like you said, being here, listening to you guys, I feel your pain and I love you all for the sake of Allah and I'm here to help you if you need anything, inshallah like you all say, we cannot stop now and also right now the American government is actually more your side, like for us, for Uighurs and if we do not take action now and continue this, then maybe 10 years, 20 years from now, somebody like maybe worse than Trump, be a president, then they say forget it, like we don't have time, so like sisters say, it's our duty and responsibility, we cannot leave this masjid and say, I don't know what's Uighur happened with Uighurs because we listen to what they said, and also for the brothers, we need to be strong men, if the Islamic world had strong Muslim men, this stuff would not happen, in the past this stuff would not happen, so please raise your sons to be strong Muslim men, we all need to become strong, maybe this is Niyamat from Allah that because Uighur go through this, Muslim Umma become stronger and become unified, but sisters I'm here for you, inshallah and any time you guys have any event, I will tell everyone I know about you, you guys, your cause and I can help you guys in any way, like please take my number, I can help you. Any other questions? I have a couple of comments too, so I have read your testimony, I've read all of your testimony, I have written about your testimony and I will continue to write about your testimony and share with everybody that I know and I just want to thank you so much for sharing your story, I can only imagine how painful it is to already have experienced it and then to have to relive it over and over, so please know that those of us who are here are listening and will take what you have said outside of this room and will do what we can to continue to fight to stop the genocide, so thank you so much and thank you for traveling here to be with us in person also, thank you very much. Thank you so much for sharing your horrible stories, I want to follow, I don't know your name, Leena, yeah I know Leena is working on getting your story out the Uyghur story out, she's doing her dissertation on the Uyghurs and I want you all and you at Miracle and some of you know I have a film that I want to be used to get your story out, it's called The Broken Promise and it covers not only the Uyghurs but Miracle is a very prominent part of this film and it's about crimes against humanity and genocide and it covers the Uyghur situation and the reason we did the film is the same reason she's doing her dissertation is to get these stories out so people can learn more about these crimes so and you all know that I want you to use our film for that purpose. It just as the brother said it's very hard breaking to hear and really appreciate you sharing those what you went through and as the brother said we have to be united we always hear about the Holocaust that happened even after so many years which should not have happened but it's unbelievable and shocking to hear that the Holocaust is going on currently in this day and age and we are letting it happen the UN is letting it happen so we have to as you rightly said sister the Muslim world has to come together and fight against injustice. Thanks again so as I said you know and right now we can't do much to the our people back at home except pushing this you know government you know help to support us and another thing is just like what we're doing we were foundation because of a lot of parents a lot of people being forced to call call them back to hometown you know because you know some sort of local because of the threat and that if you don't go people in the country like in Turkey if you don't come back we're gonna put your relative in person so a lot of people go back and there's a lot of they never return a lot of people that kept me camp so we had a lot of war friends and widows and mostly in Turkey right now that you know they're not financially not in good shape so we have always we helped that so and we also helped a few camps over here so and we also have another few have several camps over outside the US so I think a listing what we can do like what it is a lot like support what whatever you do you can you know so if you haven't even also financially you have a few and so I ever you know just you know so just thanks for everyone