杨建利博士在“维吾尔自由集会”上的演讲

公民力量新闻组

2019年4月7日

 

 

2019年4月6日下午1-5点,数家人权组织在华盛顿自由广场(Freedom Plaza) 举办了近千人参加的“维吾尔自由集会”,敦促美国国会就新疆再教育集中营的严重侵害人权事件通过制裁法案。公民力量创办人杨建利博士应邀在集会上演讲。

演讲全文如下。

 

 

Speech by Dr. Jianli YANG at Uyghur Freedom Rally Supporting the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act & UIGHUR Act

Freedom Plaza, 1455 Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20004

Saturday, April 6, 2019

 

 

Dear Brothers and Sisters,

 

Today, we are gathering in brotherhood. Our Uyghur brothers and sisters are suffering severely under the yoke of the Fascism with Chinese characteristics.  Seventy years ago, after the Holocaust of the Jewish people under Hitler, we vowed “never again.”  But among post-war atrocities that belie that pledge, we today must add the “reeducation” concentration camps where more than 1.5 million Uyghurs are detained. 

 

Dear brothers and sisters, the 1.5million are not numbers. They are human beings. They are not only human beings, they are parents, they are sons and daughters, they are husbands and wives, they are brothers and sisters. They are not 3146 and 4257, they are Aygul and Alim, a beautiful young Uygur woman and a handsome young Uyghur man.

 

Today our conscience and morality are being challenged and judged, yes challenged and judged by our ability to see the suffering of others and do everything possible in our capacity to help end it.

 

In DC, there are a few places we must know. The Holocaust Museum is one of them. It speaks to the evil darkness into which we are capable of descending. But there are other places that, on the opposite, speak to the ideals of mankind: the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial, and, of course, Capitol Hill. Today, we look up once again to the highest palace of democracy, US Congress, to demand its swift passage of the pending bipartisan legislations, the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act and the Uighur Intervention and Global Humanitarian Unified Response (UIGHUR) Act

 

We must not forget DC is the Capital of the most powerful democracy on earth. I would like you to join me in urging the Trump administration to put on the sanction list under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act Chen Quanguo, the current Communist Party Secretary of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, also known as East Turkestan, for his gross violations of human rights.

Upon thinking of the Holocaust in today’s context, I want to recommit myself, and would like to invite all of you to do so, that we will never be the next people to look away in the face of atrocity.

 

 

 

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