 So let's talk about the China's genocide against Uyghurs. So we'll talk about who are the Uyghurs and why China is committing this genocide of pressing 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, or 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 homogenous Han Chinese population in China. We were independent in the past, 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. East Turkestan 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, and the Muslim names were banned. The 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. 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 this connected 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. We are educating Uyghurs and teaching them Chinese and things like that. And we were worried what was going on there. Once there were some camps 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 labour, 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 want to talk about little bit that I said for organ harvesting. On those camps, before those detainees enter, they 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, live people. Unfortunately, they even advertise halal organs to Arabic or Muslim countries that saying because Uyghurs are Muslim, they mostly 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. But that's the level of the scary stories going on in those camps. 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 24-7, lights are on, their cameras everywhere. And they learn Xi Jinping's codes, they learn political indoctrination, CCP's propaganda in those camps. This is a Dapeng Daon Ching camp that in 2015, as you see, it was like a mountain. In 2018, CCP built a big 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 Turkistan. Life outside the camps. So we talked about what people go through inside the camps. And outside is not big difference actually. It's basically like living in the open air prison. 24-7, their cameras on the street, you're being watched, you're monitored, everything you do is recorded. There's 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 these 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, 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 issue is according to Adrian Zen's report, 1.6 million Uyghurs were transferred from inside China, from East Turkestan 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 Adrian Zen'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 camp. 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 was happening to the kids. Unfortunately, they are 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. That's just very sad that I'm worried about our future. We talked about forced labor earlier and I wanted to expand it a little bit that China using forced labor not just get cheaper labor, it's also their genocidal policy. When they transferred Uyghurs from East Turkestan to especially Uyghur women to inner China they take those women at the age of giving birth away. So they're away, they don't give birth that way they can 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 so 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 the 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 you know 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 Allah Huaykh Pari Subhan Allah or Alhamdulillah they said you need to say thank for the Communist Party, thank for Shijingpin, you need to say that. Like these rules are on the mosque, imagine now 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 were burning those items because having Quran 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 want to speak up about the truth China trying to hold our family member as a hostage back home to control our action here. So basically I'll delete that tweet, don't give a testimony, that kind of threatening messages we get all the time. And this guy on the left, Yusuf Chan 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 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. U.S. passed two bills, Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act and Uyghur Forced Labor Protection Act. Many European countries, nine of them followed the suit of U.S. and they also declared as genocide and crimes against humanity. And most recent report by U.N. 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. No, 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, you know, 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 U.N. to pass a resolution and last thing is don't buy Made in China product. I'm sorry if I bore you, but those are the truths that we're dealing with every day.