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Op-ed: We must oppose racism everywhere
Op-ed: We must oppose racism everywhere
 May 15, 2021 Kaiser Mejit
On a brisk morning 20 years ago, I was walking home to my house in Lower Roxbury. The date was Sept. 11, 2001.  As soon as I entered my house’s front door, my landline phone rang. It was one of my friends studying in Japan who made the long-distance call. Watching the international news from...
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Opinion: China’s repression of Uyghurs is not only cultural, but also physical, a new report shows
Opinion: China’s repression of Uyghurs is not only cultural, but also physical, a new report shows
 May 15, 2021 Washington Post
AFTER THE Holocaust, the U.N. General Assembly, meeting in Paris on Dec. 9, 1948, approved the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It defined genocide as, among other things, “imposing measures intended to prevent births” within a population and said genocide is...
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Only an international effort can put an end to China’s crimes in Xinjiang
Only an international effort can put an end to China’s crimes in Xinjiang
 May 15, 2021 Jewher Ilham and Sophie Richardson
As the daughter of a Uyghur economist imprisoned for life, I call on governments and the UN to act together Jewher Ilham, the daughter of Ilham Tohti, is an author at the Project to Combat Forced Labor at the Worker Rights Consortium. Sophie Richardson is China director at Human Rights Watch...
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